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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occupation does Tristram's father hold?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Knight.
(c) Squire.
(d) King.

2. What interesting point does the Salvage Man prove?
(a) An uneducated savage can be more civil than an educated knight.
(b) Those who cannot read can fight better.
(c) Reading the stars is more important than reading books.
(d) Speaking is an over-rated practice.

3. Why does Arthur leave Turpine alive?
(a) He pities Turpine for his misery.
(b) Arthur is distracted by something he sees in the distance.
(c) Turpine regains his strength and begins to fight with more fervancy.
(d) He hears Blandina's flase cries for help.

4. Which of these things does Mutability claim to have control over?
(a) The gravitational pull.
(b) The whirlwinds.
(c) The tides.
(d) The seasons.

5. Who teaches Briana and Crudor the ways of faithfulness?
(a) Purity.
(b) Faithfulness.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Courtesy.

6. What are the names of the two creatures mistreating Mirabella?
(a) Crass and Crude.
(b) Envy and Jealousy.
(c) Disdain and Scorn.
(d) Temptation and Impurity.

7. What is Geryoneo doing that has caused Belge to come to Mercilla for aid?
(a) Eating all of her harvest foods.
(b) Killing and torturing women in the area.
(c) Feeding her sons to a monster.
(d) Beating her relentlessly.

8. Why does the poet decide to forswear earthly vanities?
(a) He will wait a time to build humility.
(b) Change holds sway over them for now.
(c) There is no real joy found in them.
(d) He finds them the key to destruction.

9. How does Artegall escape from the Amazons?
(a) Arthur rescues him.
(b) Clarinda helps him after he pldeges his love to her.
(c) Radigund lets him go.
(d) He sneaks away while the women are all sleeping.

10. Where is the monster found?
(a) In the dungeaons of the castle.
(b) In the highest tower of the castle.
(c) Beneath a statue of a man-eating monster.
(d) In a well of water and fire.

11. What does Calepine find while wandering the woods?
(a) The beast that injured Serena.
(b) Turpine ravishing a maiden.
(c) A Wood Nymph who tries to seduce him.
(d) A bear eating a baby.

12. Why is Britomart so angry about Artegall's predicament?
(a) She is angry that he could not defeat a bunch of women.
(b) She thinks he will be dead.
(c) She is afraid he will not want her after seeing the Amazon beauty.
(d) She thinks he will be unfaithful to her.

13. How does Aretegall punish Sanglier for his actions?
(a) Brands him with the mark of a murderer on his forehead.
(b) Casts a spell on him that will blind him for ten years.
(c) Orders him to be a slave and squire to him for five years.
(d) Makes him wear the head of the woman he killed around his neck.

14. Why does Serena flee into the woods again?
(a) She thinks she sees Calidore.
(b) Timias is trying to attack her.
(c) She is scared by the hermit.
(d) She thinks Timias is dead.

15. Who is Pastorella's mother?
(a) Una.
(b) Gloriana.
(c) Serena.
(d) Claribell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the poet say Mutability cannot control?

2. Which of these is one thing that Mutability does NOT claim to control?

3. Which one of these is NOT one of the things that the hermit teaches Serena and Timias?

4. What does Turpine do after Arthur leaves?

5. What does Artegall demand if he wins the battle with Grantoro?

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