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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Blandamour claim Snowy Florimell?
(a) He unhorses Ferraugh without warning.
(b) He challenges Ferraugh to a duel and wins.
(c) He runs away with her in the knight.
(d) He saves her life.

2. Who is the only woman who can wear the girdle of Florimell?
(a) Amoret.
(b) Belphoebe.
(c) Una.
(d) The Snowy Florimell.

3. Who protects Guyon from his enemies while he is unconscious?
(a) The Red Cross Knight.
(b) Phaedra.
(c) An Angel and the Palmer.
(d) Mammon.

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

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

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

7. Guymon also found a book that was of great interest to him. What was his about?
(a) Some tales of Great explorers.
(b) The history of Faerie and the lineage of Gloriana.
(c) His future.
(d) A book of spells and potions.

8. Why is Amoret so uncomfortable about traveling with Britomart?
(a) She fears for her virtue because she does not know that Britomart is a woman.
(b) She is afraid that Sir Scudamore, her husband, will be unhappy.
(c) She is afraid that Britomart will ask for information that she has promised to tell no one.
(d) She feels so indebted, but has no way to repay her.

9. Why did Britomart become a knight?
(a) She was forced to learn to fight because of the lack of able-bodied men in her kingdom.
(b) Her father wanted her to be a boy, so raised her as one.
(c) Her mother had seen a vision of her child bearing a spear and Britomart was her only child, so she had to fulfill it.
(d) She preferred learnign to fight to the softer ways of women.

10. Why does Timias retreat to the woods as a hermit?
(a) He prefers the simplicity of life away from civilization.
(b) He is ashamed of not defeating The Hairy Carl.
(c) He is distraught over Belphoebe's ill-founded bad opinion of him.
(d) He has been rejected in love and no logner wants to live.

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

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

13. How is Acrasia captured?
(a) Fearing for his own life, her lover helps Guyon and the Palmer to tie her up while she is sleeping.
(b) Guyon and the Palmer set her horde of beasts on her.
(c) Guyon and the Palmer throw a net over her while she is in bed with her lover.
(d) Arthur casts a spell over everyone in her household.

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

15. How does The Red Cross Knight rise to battle with the dragon a second day after being tossed aside wounded and almost lifeless after the first long day of battle?
(a) He was only pretending to be lifeless so that the dragon would wear himself out in the battle and reveal his weaknesses.
(b) He lands in the Well of Life, which heals his wounds and gives him more power.
(c) Una brings a member of the House of Holiness to help heal him.
(d) He is strengthened by a dream in which the Faerie Queene shows him the way to victory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Archimago disguise himself as in an attempt to fool Una

2. Why does Guyon collapse after being returned to the surface?

3. Why does Alma, the virgin ruler of the castle, welcome Arthur and Guyon so warmly?

4. What is Una leading along with her on this journey?

5. Why does Timias not declare his love for Belphoebe after she heals him of his wounds?

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