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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Arthur bribe his way into the castle?
(a) He promises to protect them against all enemies.
(b) He uses the giants head which he cut off.
(c) He offers to tell secrets of their enemies that would weaken their defenses.
(d) He threatens to cast spells that Merlin taught him.

2. What causes Malecasta to faint?
(a) Seeing The Red Cross Knight and Britomart together.
(b) Seeing four of her six knights hewn down by The Red Cross Knight.
(c) Hearing that The Red Cross Knight will not take pleasure in her because of his love for Una.
(d) Finding that her beloved knight, Britomart, is a woman.

3. Why does Cymochles fight Guymon?
(a) He wants to win the love of Phaedra.
(b) He likes a good fight and would have fought with anyone who crossed his path.
(c) He believes Guymon to be Archimago in disguise.
(d) He believes that Guymon left his brother to die at the hands of Occasion.

4. Why does Britomart allow Busirane to live after he tried to kill her and her sister?
(a) She needs him alive to heal Amoret.
(b) She is in love with him.
(c) She wants to leave him where someone else will kill him so that his blood is not on her hands.
(d) She wants him to train her in the art of sorcery.

5. What unlikely protector does Una find?
(a) A deaf and dumb enchantress.
(b) An evil serpent.
(c) A lion who would have eaten her.
(d) The Red Cross Knight's brother.

6. What protects Guyon and the Palmer from the horde of beasts that guard Acrasia's abode?
(a) Guyon's sword.
(b) The Palmer's staff.
(c) Fervent prayers.
(d) Arthur.

7. Who does Una come across in her distress that gives her hope?
(a) Archimago disguised as The Red Cross Knight.
(b) Arthur
(c) Duessa.
(d) The Red Cross Knight.

8. What is Britomart's quest?
(a) To regain the throne of her kingdom.
(b) To find Artegall, her future husband.
(c) To aid the plight of Una.
(d) To avenge the death of her brother.

9. Why is Sir Scudamore so happy when Artegall cracks Britomart's helmet in battle?
(a) He sees her beauty and falls in love with her.
(b) He hates Britomart and wants her to lose.
(c) It proves that she is not unbeatable.
(d) He sees for the first time that she is a woman.

10. Who does Archimago disguise himself as in an attempt to fool Una
(a) The Red Cross Knight.
(b) Abessa.
(c) Sansjoy.
(d) The Dwarf.

11. Why does Guyon collapse after being returned to the surface?
(a) He collapses out of relief for his life being spared.
(b) He sees a dragon and faints out of fear.
(c) He feels ashamed for his behavior with Mammon, and collapses in despair and shame.
(d) He has had three days and nights with no food or sleep.

12. Why did Phedon kill his best friend and his betrothed?
(a) He killed them by mistake thinking they were his enemies.
(b) Philemon tricked Phedon into thinking that Claribell had been unfaithful.
(c) Claribel and Philemon tried to kill him.
(d) His best friend had killed his brother in a duel that his fiancee arranged.

13. What does Maleger ride as he comes to attack the castle?
(a) A tiger.
(b) A donkey.
(c) A lion.
(d) A great stallion.

14. Why did Canacee give Cambell a magic ring?
(a) To save his life and make him king.
(b) To protect him during the tournament and keep herself from getting married.
(c) To confuse his wits and have him make her queen.
(d) To cause him to lose so that she could marry Triamond.

15. Why is Furor beating the young man?
(a) Occasion, his mother, told him to.
(b) He is trying to get information out of him.
(c) The young man stole his horse.
(d) He has mistaken the young man for someone else who disrespected him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wounds Amoret in the woods?

2. Guymon also found a book that was of great interest to him. What was his about?

3. What does the witch do to calm his son down after Florimell runs away?

4. Why did Britomart become a knight?

5. How does the Red Cross Knight finally defeat the dreaded dragon?

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