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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What leads Belphoebe back to Timias?
(a) A hawk.
(b) A stag.
(c) A turtle dove.
(d) A voice in her dreams telling her where to go.

2. Who comes on the scene as Paridell's new love interest?
(a) Belphoebe.
(b) Archimago in disguise.
(c) Duessa.
(d) Una.

3. Who is Arthur in love with?
(a) Gloriana.
(b) Una.
(c) Archimago disguised as a fair maiden.
(d) Belphoebe.

4. What is Una leading along with her on this journey?
(a) A White lamb.
(b) A sly monster who is tracking her without her notice.
(c) A dwarf she saved from danger.
(d) Everyone, she is the leader of the group.

5. How is Orgoglio finally defeated?
(a) Arthur reveals an extremely bright shield and conquers him.
(b) Sansloy defeats him thinking that it might be Archimago in disguise.
(c) Duessa betrays him and stabs him from behind.
(d) The Red Cross Knight pretends to be dead, and then vanquishes Orgoglio when he turns away in vain triumph.

6. 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 sees for the first time that she is a woman.
(c) It proves that she is not unbeatable.
(d) He hates Britomart and wants her to lose.

7. Why won't the blood on the baby's hands wash off?
(a) The blood is a sign of the baby's part in his mother's death.
(b) The fountain they are at is really a transformed nymph and the water there cannot be made impure.
(c) Before killing herself, the mother prayed that her blodd may remain on her baby's hands that he might remember her always.
(d) The baby was cursed at birth.

8. Why does Mammon return Guyon to the surface?
(a) Guyon offended him.
(b) Guyon was disrespectful to Mammon's daughter.
(c) Guyon did not submit to any of the temptations offered him.
(d) Mammon grows to like Guyon too much to tempt him and enslave him.

9. Why does Pyrochles fight Guymon?
(a) He is upset that Guyon tied up Occasion and kept him from having a good fight.
(b) Pyrochles is really Archimago in disguise.
(c) Guyon defends Phedon, and this angers Pyrochles.
(d) He is angry that Guyon allowed Furor and Occasion to live.

10. Who does Britomart defeat without recognizing?
(a) Blandamour.
(b) Artegall.
(c) The Red Cross Knight.
(d) Braggadochio.

11. What gives The Red Cross Knight the courage he needs to slay Error when he is almost defeated?
(a) He remembers the words of Gloriana the Faerie Queene and they give him the courage he needs.
(b) He hears Una call to him to have faith.
(c) Error's children help him destroy her.
(d) He calls upon God to give him strength.

12. In what mysterious way was Belphoebe's mother impregnated with her and her twin sister?
(a) By the mischieveous Cupid.
(b) Nobody knows. This is something Belphoebe is searching to find out.
(c) Through prayers and a deep desire for a baby.
(d) By the sun's rays while sleeping by the water.

13. Why does Guyon fight The Red Cross Knight?
(a) He is a companion of Sansfoy and is avenging his death.
(b) Archimago and Druessa trick him into thinking that The Red Cross Knight has raped a young maiden.
(c) He thinks The Red Cross Knight is Archimago in disguise.
(d) He is in love with Una and is fighting for her hand.

14. Who is the first person to ever defeat Guyon in a fight?
(a) Una.
(b) Britomart.
(c) Arthur.
(d) The Red Cross Knight.

15. What causes Una to faint numerous times?
(a) She is told that The Red Cross Knight has been killed by Duessa.
(b) She hears news from The Dwarf that The Red Cross Knight is alive, but captured by a great giant.
(c) Archimago appears to her disguised as Error, and she faints in fear.
(d) She comes across Sansloy and fears for her virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Britomart and Artegall part after finally finding each other?

2. How does Una escape from the lusty Sansloy?

3. How does Sansjoy recover after he loses his duel with the Red Cross Knight?

4. What does Blandamour suggest the prize for the loser should be in his proposed duel with Braggadochio?

5. How does Arthur bribe his way into the castle?

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