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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By whom is Tancred challenged?
(a) One of Armida's knights.
(b) Armida.
(c) One of the knights who betrayed the Crusaders' cause.
(d) A Muslim.

2. How do the younger Crusaders react when the elderly Raymond steps forward?
(a) They are saddened.
(b) They are surprised.
(c) They are angered.
(d) They are embarrassed.

3. To whom does this holy man send messengers?
(a) The Muslims.
(b) His allies.
(c) His family.
(d) His enemies.

4. What happens as soon as Tancred and Clorinda see each other?
(a) They instantly fight.
(b) They are instantly mutually attracted.
(c) They instantly hate each other.
(d) They instantly recognize each other.

5. Of what does this Muslim ruler hear?
(a) The Crusaders have given up.
(b) The Crusaders' battle cries.
(c) The Crusaders fear him.
(d) The Crusaders' coming.

6. What does Gabriel tell this holy man?
(a) The time has come for him to kill all who are not followers of Christ.
(b) It is time to accept others and to not judge those he does not understand.
(c) The time has come for him to gather the Christian lords of Europe and free Jerusalem.
(d) The time has come for Jerusalem to fight for itself.

7. What does a beautiful young Christian woman named Sophronia confess?
(a) To stealing the statue.
(b) To protecting Christians.
(c) To protecting Christ.
(d) To hiding Aladine's wife.

8. What is the poet's story?
(a) The freeing of Jerusalem by Muslims.
(b) The freeing of Jerusalem by Christians.
(c) The freeing of Jerusalem by Pagans.
(d) The freeing of Jerusalem by Buddhists.

9. What do Argantes and Aletes warn the Crusaders?
(a) Of the poverty they are in.
(b) Of the dangers they will face.
(c) Of the evil powers of the Muslims.
(d) Of the disease that they will suffer.

10. What happens when Tancred pursues this person into the castle?
(a) He is taken prisoner.
(b) He is taunted.
(c) He is captured and tortured.
(d) He is thrown out of the castle.

11. What idea does Satan give Hidraort?
(a) To send his beautiful niece Armida as a distraction.
(b) To protect himself and not worry about the others.
(c) To send his neice to the Muslims for comfort.
(d) To attack the Muslims.

12. Why does Aladine furiously raid all the Christian homes in Jerusalem?
(a) In search of his wife.
(b) In search of Christians.
(c) In search of Jesus.
(d) In search of the statue.

13. What does Godfrey say he will do once the battle is complete?
(a) He would be happy to help Armida.
(b) He will kill Armida.
(c) He will send Armida back to her family.
(d) He will search for Armida's queen.

14. What story does Armida tell?
(a) She is a princess whose country was overthrown by an evil prince.
(b) She is lost and searching for fellow Christians.
(c) She is an evil woman who is plotting against them.
(d) She is a slave who has lost her queen.

15. The following morning whose home does Erminia come across?
(a) Her father's.
(b) A Sorceror.
(c) A hospitable Old Man.
(d) An Old Beggar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who left armor in Erminia's room as a token of their friendship?

2. What kind of speech does Godfrey make?

3. What happened to Erminia after this man conquered her kingdom but treated her and her belongings with immense respect, eventually freeing her?

4. What does Olindo do?

5. What does Renaldo say as he refuses?

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