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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marinell hear while wandering around the castle?
(a) An evil plot between two withces to destroy the wedding.
(b) A song telling him how to contiune on his quest.
(c) Florimell crying for him while in prison.
(d) His mother with Proteus.

2. Why does the brigand not sell Coridon?
(a) He escapes.
(b) One of the brigands has fallen in love with him.
(c) He works so well that the brigands keep him on as their own slave.
(d) He is such a weakling that no one will buy him.

3. What are the names of the two hags who meet Artegall and Talus on the road back home?
(a) Envy and Detraction.
(b) Jealousy and Distraction.
(c) Lewdness and Perversion.
(d) Idleness and Impurity.

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

5. Who does Marinell's mother ask to help fight the cause of her son's depression?
(a) Arthur.
(b) Jove.
(c) Cupid.
(d) Venus.

6. What lets Radigund defeat Artegall?
(a) Artegall allows himself to lose so that he can study the Amazons from captivity.
(b) Artegall cannot kill a woman.
(c) She is a better fighter.
(d) When he sees her face after taking off her helmet, he is overcome by her beauty.

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

8. How does Artegall get through the mob on the beach on his way to Grantoro?
(a) Artegall fights them all.
(b) Grantoro kills them.
(c) Talus slays them for Artegall.
(d) They are in a state of chaos and turn on each other.

9. Why does Jove allow her to continue her destruction of Man's Golden Age?
(a) She threatens to destroy the Gods.
(b) She deceives them with stories of their hatred.
(c) She promises her hand in marriage if she may continue.
(d) He is charmed by her beauty.

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

11. What does Turpine agree to do if Arthur will spare his life?
(a) Never call himself a knight again.
(b) Repent of all his evil doings and devote his life to God.
(c) Never mistreat a lady again.
(d) Serve as Arthur's servant.

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

13. Why is Arthur fighting at Belge's castle alone?
(a) Arthur and Artegall got in an argument on the way, and Arthur sent Artegall away in his anger.
(b) Artegall was wounded in battle on the way to Belge's castle.
(c) Artegall is waiting for Arthur outside the castle walls.
(d) He sent Artegall off to continue his own quest.

14. Why is Artegall upset with Braggadochio accepting the winning prize?
(a) Artegall is jealous of Braggadochio's skills.
(b) Artegall won the prize using Braggadochio's shield.
(c) Artegall suspects that Braggadochio cheated.
(d) Braggadochio threatened to kill Artegall if he won.

15. What causes Calidore to stop his quest for the Blatant Beast?
(a) He collapses from fatigue.
(b) He hears Serena in the woods.
(c) Pastorella, a lovely shepherdess.
(d) He meets up with Arthur and helps him with his quest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Serena flee into the woods again?

2. What two things does Calpine leave behind once again?

3. What was Artegall given to help him rescue Eirena?

4. Which of these things does Mutability claim to have control over?

5. Why do Artegall and Britomart part ways once more?

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