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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. What does Laudine's agreement to take Lunete's advice show us?
(a) Her stupidity.
(b) Her cunning.
(c) Her innocence.
(d) Her intellect.

2. Where does Meleagant imprison Lancelot?
(a) In a tower in the forest.
(b) In a farm on the inlet of a lake.
(c) In a farm in the forest.
(d) In a tower on the inlet of a lake.

3. Who do Lancelot and other knights set out to search for after his fight with Meleagant has ended?
(a) King Arthur.
(b) Queen Guinevere.
(c) Sir Gawain.
(d) Kay.

4. Why does the girl try to keep Lancelot from seeing the object she finds?
(a) Because it belongs to Meleagant.
(b) Because it belongs to King Arthur.
(c) Because it belongs to the Queen.
(d) Because it belongs to her knight.

5. Upon hearing the rumor of Lancelot's death, which of the following is NOT among what ruins Queen Guinevere's beauty?
(a) Fever.
(b) Vigils.
(c) Grief.
(d) Fasting for two days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the terms Yvain must agree to in order to be allowed to leave to attend King Arthur's tournaments?

2. What does the lion prepare to do when he thinks Yvain is dead?

3. After the first fight, who does Yvain fight next?

4. What does the maiden pretend is being done to her by six knights?

5. What is Queen Guinevere's reception of Lancelot when they are finally allowed to meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Lunete's identity foreshadowed when Yvain comes across her as a prisoner?

2. What does Lancelot's ability to lift the stone slab in the church's cemetery in The Knight of the Cart foreshadow?

3. What is the story behind the storm stone in The Knight with the Lion?

4. Why does Yvain go in search of the spring?

5. Briefly compare and contrast King Bademagu and his son, Meleagant, from The Knight of the Cart.

6. What shame follows Lancelot throughout his adventures in The Knight of the Cart?

7. What does Lunete give to Yvain, and why?

8. With Kay insisting upon leaving after the knight issues a challenge, what qualities does he show and how does it affect the Queen in The Knight of the Cart?

9. What actions of Lancelot's in The Knight of the Cart are considered shameful, and why?

10. What is the irony of Laudine begging Yvain to stay after he defeats the three knights?

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