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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 described at detailed length?

2. To what do both Aladine and Godfrey agree regarding Argantes?

3. Why does Aladine agree to her terms?

4. What idea does Satan give Hidraort?

5. Erminia, who has watched the battle from high in her tower, worries about whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Godfrey do, regarding the battle? How does Renaldo respond?

2. Why does an angel visit Godfrey?

3. What happens after Erminia becomes lost and spends a night in the woods?

4. What does Renaldo attempt to do to Argantes? Why?

5. What does Ismen do for Soliman?

6. What is this story about?

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

8. What is Valfrine doing at this time?

9. What happens as water and supplies become scarce?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The poem tells a quest story.

Part 1) What is a quest story? How does this tell a quest story?

Part 2) What is unique about this quest story? What is the purpose of this?

Part 3) Name two other quest stories. What is the purpose of these quest stories? Compare them to this story.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Clorinda is a female warrior.

Part 1) Why is this significant?

Part 2) How does she differ from Sophronia? What is the purpose for these differences?

Part 3) What real figure might she represent? Who might she represent today? Why?

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