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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Geraint believe of Enid in "Geraint and Enid"?
(a) She is planning to leave him.
(b) She is having a child.
(c) She is having an affair.
(d) She is conspiring to kill him.

2. Geraint's peers attribute his leaving Arthur's circle as a loss of what?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Courage.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Manliness.

3. Who is Gareth's mother?
(a) Enid.
(b) Bellicent.
(c) Ariel.
(d) Ettarre.

4. Balin ends up going toward whose realm in "Balin and Balan"?
(a) Lot's.
(b) Pellam's.
(c) Uther's.
(d) The Red Knight's.

5. Whose mission is it to hunt the wood devil in "Balin and Balan"?
(a) Balin's.
(b) Lancelot's.
(c) Balan's.
(d) Galahad's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was king before King Uther?

2. Who had initially requested the spell of which Merlin holds secret in "Merlin and Vivien"?

3. Whom does Gareth mistake for a bandit and attack in "Gareth and Lynette"?

4. Gareth's mother allows him to go to Arthur's court on the condition that he work where first?

5. What is Sparrow-Hawk's real name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the principle theme of "Gareth and Lynette"?

2. What misunderstanding does Geraint undergo in "The Marriage of Geraint"? Why?

3. Discuss irony as it applies to the story of "Geraint and Enid" in a medieval sense.

4. What warning does Enid give Geraint about the Earl in "Geraint and Enid"? What is his reaction?

5. How is the love affair between Guinevere and Lancelot presented differently by Tennyson than in the Medieval legends?

6. Why does Geraint leave Camelot in "The Marriage of Geraint"? What is thought by others of his leaving?

7. Who does Leodogran summon to prove Arthur's birth? What do they relay?

8. What is the major theme of "Merlin and Vivien"?

9. How are women and men characterized in "Gareth and Lynette"?

10. How does Guinevere's infidelity lead indirectly to Balin's downfall? What religious allusion exists in this story?

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