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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. How is the second fight between Guivret and Erec stopped?
(a) Guivret surrenders to Erec.
(b) Enide tells Erec to stop fighting and he listens.
(c) Enide shouts at Guivret to not hurt Erec anymore.
(d) Erec surrenders to Guivret.

2. What object is described in great detail as having been made by fairies?
(a) Erec's robe.
(b) Enide's gown.
(c) The sceptor.
(d) The crown.

3. How is Alis deceived into thinking he has possessed Fenice?
(a) Thessala gives him a potion.
(b) Thessala poses as Fenice.
(c) Fenice has one of her ladies-in-waiting pose as her.
(d) Fenice gives him a potion.

4. Who is the first person Erec encounters on his journey for the Joy of the Court?
(a) King Evrain.
(b) An attractive maiden sitting on a bed.
(c) A beast.
(d) A handsome and tall knight.

5. Who is Fenice?
(a) The Greek Emperor's daughter.
(b) Queen Guinevere's lady-in-waiting.
(c) The German Emperor's daughter.
(d) King Arthur's niece.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says "Never do I seek to be free from Love so as not to devote myself always to his service"?

2. Who kidnaps Fenice?

3. Who is Thessala?

4. Who does Alexander want to serve?

5. What does Erec instruct Enide NOT to do as they are traveling?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe the initial attraction and relationship between Alexander and Soredamour, in Cliges.

2. in Cliges, why does Alexander not want to become a knight in Greece?

3. What advice of his father's does Cliges follow?

4. How does Enide convince the count who wants to marry her to not kill Erec after he implores her to leave him?

5. Briefly describe Erec's robe of watered silk in Erec and Enide.

6. What foreshadows the eventual discovery of the two secret lovers in Cliges?

7. What is the sparrowhawk contest in Erec and Enide?

8. Why do Erec and Enide leave King Arthur's court?

9. What is the irony behind Alis' choosing of John to build Fenice's tomb in Cliges?

10. In Cliges, Alexander and Alis make a pact. What is this pact, and what does the agreement of the pact say about Alis' character?

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