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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Queen Guinevere's reception of Lancelot when they are finally allowed to meet?
(a) She refuses to talk to him and goes to her room.
(b) She is tearful and embraces him.
(c) She refuses to talk, but embraces him.
(d) She is tearful and goes to her room to hide her tears.

2. When the Lord of Blackthorn dies, what happens?
(a) His older daughter seizes control.
(b) His son seizes control.
(c) Yvain inherits the lands.
(d) His younger daughter seizes control.

3. What does the maiden pretend is being done to her by six knights?
(a) Murder.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Incest.
(d) Rape.

4. What is Yvain's new name?
(a) The Knight with the Cart.
(b) The Knight of the Cart.
(c) The Knight with the Lion.
(d) The Knight of the Lion.

5. Whose assistance does the younger daughter seek?
(a) Sir Gawain.
(b) Yvain.
(c) The lion.
(d) King Arthur.

6. By carrying the lion on his shield, what does Yvain show?
(a) His love for the lion.
(b) His friendship with the lion.
(c) His disgust for the lion.
(d) His honor for the lion.

7. What object does the girl try to keep Lancelot from seeing?
(a) A comb.
(b) A sword.
(c) A brush.
(d) A shoe.

8. How is Lancelot found by his savior?
(a) His savior heard his lamentations.
(b) His savior beat it out of Meleagant.
(c) His savior followed Meleagant to the hidden location.
(d) His savior found him by accident.

9. Who offers to help Yvain escape after he is trapped?
(a) Sir Gawain.
(b) Laudine.
(c) Lunete.
(d) Calogrenant.

10. In the beginning of The Knight with the Lion, to whom is the queen speaking when she says, "You are malicious and ill bred to quarrel with your companions"?
(a) Sir Gawain.
(b) Kay.
(c) Calogrenant.
(d) Sir Yvain.

11. What are the terms Yvain must agree to in order to be allowed to leave to attend King Arthur's tournaments?
(a) He must return in less than one year or forfeit his wife's love.
(b) He must return in one year or less or forifeit his wife's love.
(c) He must win the tournament or forget about coming home.
(d) He must slay a giant before he returns or forfeit his wife's love.

12. Who sets off to find Lancelot?
(a) One of the King's daughters.
(b) Queen Guinevere.
(c) A nameless knight.
(d) Sir Gawain.

13. What does King Bademagu plead with Queen Guinevere to do?
(a) Convince Lancelot not to slay his son.
(b) Convince Lancelot to leave and never return.
(c) Convince Lancelot to slay his son.
(d) Convince Lancelot to stay forever.

14. Who does Yvain fight in King Arthur's presence?
(a) Erec.
(b) Sir Gawain.
(c) Kay.
(d) Lancelot.

15. With Lancelot's arrival to the land of Meleagant, what does King Bademagu attempt to do?
(a) Marry Queen Guinevere.
(b) Start war.
(c) Initiate peace.
(d) Challenge him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Yvain fall in love with and marry?

2. How is the problem of inheritance between the two sisters resolved?

3. Who is one of the beds reserved for in the lodging that Sir Gawain and Lancelot come to?

4. When the lion joins in Yvain's fight, what quality does he demonstrate?

5. How does the lion demonstrate loyalty once more?

(see the answer keys)

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