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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two things does Calpine leave behind once again?
(a) His sword and his shield.
(b) Serena and Timias.
(c) His helmet and his food.
(d) His armor and his horse.

2. Why do the brigands not sell Patronella with the rest of her people?
(a) The leader has fallen in love with her.
(b) She runs away before they can sell her.
(c) She has no real abilities.
(d) Nobody wants to pay such a high price for a slave.

3. How many days does Artegall have to get to Grantoro's castle before Eirena will be killed?
(a) 30
(b) 10
(c) 20
(d) 14

4. Who do Arthur and Artegall find sentenced to death when they reach Mercilla's castle?
(a) The Red Cross Knight.
(b) Archimago.
(c) Sansloy.
(d) Duessa.

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

6. What does Radigund, the Amazon warrior, make all of the men she defeats do?
(a) Make love to them.
(b) Fight each other in a spectator's ring.
(c) Wear dresses and perform women's work.
(d) Serve as slaves.

7. Why are the shepherds all captured?
(a) They were being avenged for killing some of the band of robbers.
(b) They were caught unawares while sleeping.
(c) They defamed a piece of holy land.
(d) Calidore is gone hunting and is not there to protect them.

8. Who is being wed in the very unique wedding while Florimell is locked up?
(a) The Thames River and Medway.
(b) The Song and The Wind.
(c) The Grass and The Earth.
(d) The Sun and The Moon.

9. What is the interpretation to Britomart's crazy dream about being impregnated by a crocodile and giving birth to a lion?
(a) Artegall will try to deceive her.
(b) She will die in child birth, but Artegall will care for the child.
(c) She and Artegall will be married and rear a great king.
(d) She will be raped, but Artegall will still marry her and raise the offspring not his as his own.

10. Who falls in love with Artegall while he is in captivity?
(a) Clemechte.
(b) Radigund and Clarinda
(c) Florimell.
(d) All the women.

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

12. What happened to Faunus when he was caught spying on Diana while bathing.
(a) She drowned him in the pool she was bathing in.
(b) He fell from the tree he was sitting in and died.
(c) He was turned into a deer and hunted down.
(d) He wooed her and married her.

13. Why does Adicia let Artegall into the castle?
(a) He breaks down the door, and she has no choice.
(b) She is attracted to his beauty and wishes to seduce him.
(c) He knows the password, so she assumes he is a friend.
(d) He is wearing the armor of one of the knights he killed.

14. What does the poet say Mutability cannot control?
(a) The earth.
(b) The underworld.
(c) The heavens.
(d) The oceans.

15. How does Calidore ignore the laws of Courtesy?
(a) He does not leave Serena with a kiss.
(b) He let the beast escape while looking for Calepine.
(c) He does not rise when Serena rises as is customary.
(d) He fails to check on Serena when she is dropped from the mouth of the beast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Turpine agree to do if Arthur will spare his life?

2. What is said that ends the debate with Mutability?

3. How is Souldon killed?

4. What is Colin Clout's special gift?

5. Why does Jove allow her to continue her destruction of Man's Golden Age?

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