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

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does a group of Italian warriors bring to Godfrey?

2. Who decides it is time for Clorinda to know the truth of her origins?

3. As the Crusaders surge through the city gates, who does Tancred encounter?

4. What happens when water and supplies become scarce?

5. When they return to the camp, where do they find Godfrey?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There is a contrast of opposing forces.

Part 1) What are the opposing forces? How are they symbolized?

Part 2) How are these symbols created? What do they reveal about the author's religious views?

Part 3) How is this contrast a form of propaganda? How might it influence others? How is propaganda still used today to influence people about various cultures and religions?

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

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?

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