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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) She preferred learnign to fight to the softer ways of women.
(c) Her father wanted her to be a boy, so raised her as one.
(d) Her mother had seen a vision of her child bearing a spear and Britomart was her only child, so she had to fulfill it.

2. Why is Sir Scudamore so happy when Artegall cracks Britomart's helmet in battle?
(a) He sees for the first time that she is a woman.
(b) He sees her beauty and falls in love with her.
(c) It proves that she is not unbeatable.
(d) He hates Britomart and wants her to lose.

3. What does the beast do when he fails to capture and kill Florimell after she jumps into the fisherman's boat?
(a) He tries to swim after her and drowns.
(b) He goes back to the witch's son and eats him.
(c) He eats her horse.
(d) He tears himself apart in shame.

4. 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 baby was cursed at birth.
(c) The fountain they are at is really a transformed nymph and the water there cannot be made impure.
(d) Before killing herself, the mother prayed that her blodd may remain on her baby's hands that he might remember her always.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Cymoent ask for help in avenging her son's death?

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

3. Who wounds Amoret in the woods?

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

5. What is Britomart's quest?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does The Palmer stop Guyon from protecting Pyrochles from Occasion?

2. Who is Calidore searching for, and what does it represent?

3. What happens when Britomart meets Artegall, and why is this so ironic?

4. Who do Talus and Artegall meet on the road home?

5. How much time does Artegall have to complete his mission and what will happen if he does not?

6. Where does Arthur find the monster?

7. Explain the bond that Triamond had with his brothers.

8. What makes Duessa so dangerous to The Red Cross Knight?

9. Who are the three knights chasing Samient, and why are they chasing her?

10. Why does an angel watch over Guyon?

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