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

2. Whose assistance does the older daughter of the Lord of Blackthorn gain?
(a) The lion.
(b) Yvain.
(c) King Arthur.
(d) Sir Gawain.

3. What happens to Lancelot at midnight when he sleeps in the reserved bed?
(a) A bow hurtles at him.
(b) A lance hurtles at him.
(c) A sword hurtles at him.
(d) An axe hurtles at him.

4. Who helps Yvain regain sanity?
(a) Lunete.
(b) Laudine.
(c) Morgan the wise.
(d) Guinevere.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offers to help Yvain escape after he is trapped?

2. Who tells the story of finding an ugly peasant and a knight appearing after a storm?

3. Who does Yvain save the lion from?

4. What is said to happen if a man can lift the slab in the church's cemetery unaided?

5. What does Lancelot ask the dwarf?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some instances in which Lancelot's appeal to women is depicted?

2. Describe what can be understood of Calogrenant and Kay's characters when they see the Queen in The Knight with the Lion.

3. Why does Lunete offer to help Yvain escape when he is trapped?

4. What is the dispute between the two daughters of the Lord of Blackthorn?

5. In the beginning of The Knight of the Cart, the knight who appears in the beginning and issues a challenge foreshadows what?

6. What agreement do Yvain and Laudine come to when Yvain is told of King Arthur's tournament?

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

8. What indicates Yvain's fame?

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

10. In The Knight of the Cart, why does the girl who offers lodging to Lancelot try to keep him from seeing the comb?

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