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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eustace feel about not being chosen?

2. What does this person and his family do for her?

3. What does Eustace suggest?

4. Who impetuously rides out to challenge Argantes?

5. Back in Jerusalem, why is Argantes becoming more and more angry and impatient?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ismen do in the forest?

2. How does Argantes feel about Soliman? How does this affect his behavior?

3. What does Aladine do on the advice of a sorcerer?

4. Who first confesses to stealing the statue? Why?

5. What do the spirits tell Tancred?

6. How does this book begin?

7. What takes place during the battle?

8. What happens to Otho?

9. To what do Tancred and Argantes agree? What is the outcome of this?

10. Why is the Muslim ruler unable to kill the Christians?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A thematic statement is made, that living in and fighting for the Christian cause must proceed with no regard for the jeers of others.

Part 1) How is this shown in the story? For whom is this message? Why?

Part 2) How is this relevant today?

Part 3) How is this statement thematic? How is this idea reiterated in other parts of the story?

Essay Topic 2

Women in this poem start as enemies.

Part 1) How and why do they start as enemies? What is the ideal woman like? How do you know this?

Part 2) How does this emphasize the unusual qualities of the warrior woman?

Part 3) How do the religious beliefs of the people of this day support this belief about women?

Essay Topic 3

The key purpose of Books 19 and 20 is to bring to a climactic close several of the poem's key elements.

Part 1) What are the poem's key elements that come to a close in this chapter? How do they come to a close?

Part 2) With what questions does this poem leave the reader? Why? What is the purpose of this?

Part 3) Are the questions a reader would have today about this poem be the same questions one would have had when the poem was written? Why or why not?

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