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

2. What leads Belphoebe back to Timias?
(a) A turtle dove.
(b) A stag.
(c) A voice in her dreams telling her where to go.
(d) A hawk.

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

4. Why does Guyon collapse after being returned to the surface?
(a) He sees a dragon and faints out of fear.
(b) He collapses out of relief for his life being spared.
(c) He has had three days and nights with no food or sleep.
(d) He feels ashamed for his behavior with Mammon, and collapses in despair and shame.

5. Why won't the blood on the baby's hands wash off?
(a) Before killing herself, the mother prayed that her blodd may remain on her baby's hands that he might remember her always.
(b) The blood is a sign of the baby's part in his mother's death.
(c) The baby was cursed at birth.
(d) The fountain they are at is really a transformed nymph and the water there cannot be made impure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about the three upper rooms of the castle?

2. Who is almost killed while trying to help defeat Orgolio?

3. What surprise is revealed to Poeana?

4. Who took Belphoebe from her sleeping mother's side and raised her?

5. Who is the only woman who can wear the girdle of Florimell?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would Arthur be so enthralled in a book of history?

2. What are Mutability's reasons for wanting the title of control?

3. Explain the circumstances that made Timias retreat to a life in the woods.

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

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

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

7. Why does the poet forswear his earthly possessions?

8. Why is Artegall so upset with Pollente?

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

10. What is the mission that Columbell sent her beloved on, and why?

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