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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. Whose help does the poet invoke?

2. Who does Armida choose as her favorite?

3. What does the Muslim ruler destroy?

4. At whom does God look down?

5. What gets the better of Renaldo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ismen do in the forest?

2. How does Clorinda die?

3. How does Godfrey respond to Armida's request?

4. What does Clorinda learn about her origins?

5. What does Satan do?

6. What does Ismen do for Soliman?

7. What is this story about?

8. What does Aladine do when the statue disappears?

9. How does the story begin?

10. What vow does Clorinda make? What is Aladine's response?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A theme relates to woman as a distraction.

Part 1) How are women distractions in this poem?

Part 2) How is this thematic?

Part 3) What does this reveal about the mindset of people at the time the poem is written and the time in which the story takes place?

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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