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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 is done for Dudon?

2. What does Aladine command happen to both Sophronia and Olindo?

3. What does a beautiful young Christian woman named Sophronia confess?

4. Does Godfrey agree to Eustace's suggestion?

5. Who protects Raymond?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aladine say when Argantes calls him cowardly?

2. Why is Soliman suggested to have a heart of metal or stone?

3. What is Argantes doing back in Jerusalem?

4. What does Aladine do when the statue disappears?

5. Why does Eustace try to talk Renaldo into seeking Godfrey's assignment?

6. How are Guelpho and Ubaldo tempted? How do they handle these temptations?

7. What does Ismen do for Soliman?

8. What happens when Armida arrives at the camp?

9. What does the Muslim ruler of Jerusalem do at this same time?

10. What is Renaldo's response to Eustace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Book 13's verses develop an extended metaphor for the trials a Christian must endure to remain true to the faith.

Part 1) What takes place in Book 13? What metaphors exist? What do they mean?

Part 2) Would someone reading this poem understand these metaphors? Why or why not? Are they relevant today? Why or why not?

Part 3) Why must one suffer these trials? Is suffering necessary?

Essay Topic 3

Books 17and 18 lay the groundwork for the poem's climactic confrontations.

Part 1) Describe Books 17and 18. How do they lay the groundwork for the poem's climactic confrontations on a literal level?

Part 2) How do they lay the groundwork for the poem's climactic confrontations on a symbolic level?

Part 3) How do these books affect the reader? How do they affect the sense of the poem? Is it more suspenseful? Bittersweet? Sad? Why?

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