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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Pearl tell the narrator to seek as his friend?
(a) God.
(b) No one.
(c) Her.
(d) Earth.

2. What happens as Lady Heurodis awakens from her nap under the tree?
(a) She cries.
(b) She wrings her hands.
(c) All of these listed.
(d) She goes mad.

3. According to Pearl in the twenty-seventh stanza, where will the narrator find a lair?
(a) In her arms.
(b) In wind.
(c) In clay.
(d) In dust.

4. What does Sir Gawain ask the Green Knight to "deal" him?
(a) His destiny.
(b) His fate.
(c) His death-blow.
(d) His card.

5. What does "the lord" tell Sir Gawain to do instead of go to the Green Chapel?
(a) "Pray hard."
(b) Come back to his castle.
(c) Go to "some other country."
(d) Go back to Arthur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sir Orfeo say has torn Lady Heurodis's face?

2. In "Pearl," where does the narrator lose his pearl?

3. What color is the gown that the child wears in stanza fourteen of "Pearl"?

4. Who is responsible for the color of the Green Knight?

5. How does Sir Orfeo say that Lady Heurodis looks at him, while he is standing next to her bed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the "Pearl" narrator see at the base of the crystal cliff?

2. Why does Pearl say that the narrator is not a gentle jeweler?

3. When Lady Heurodis disappears, what does Sir Orfeo do?

4. Since losing the pearl, what has the "Pearl" narrator done?

5. Upon entering the faerie king's castle, what does Sir Orfeo see?

6. Why does Sir Orfeo leave his kingdom with only a beggar's cloak?

7. Why do Sir Orfeo's grandparents possess the names that they do?

8. What does "the lord" say regarding his refusal to accompany Sir Gawain to the chapel?

9. According to "Sir Orfeo," where did lays come from?

10. What does "the lord" tell Sir Gawain will happen if he goes to the Green Chapel?

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