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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 Guinevere do with the prize from the tournament in "Lancelot and Elaine"?
(a) Throws it into the river.
(b) Tears it in shreds.
(c) Holds it to her breast.
(d) Throws it at him.

2. By whom is the boy beaten when he arrives at Arthur's court before the tournament in "The Last Tournament"?
(a) King Pellam.
(b) King Mark.
(c) The Red Knight.
(d) King Antione.

3. Whose ghost visits Arthur in "The Passing of Arthur"?
(a) Gawain.
(b) Guinevere.
(c) Galahad.
(d) Percivale.

4. Who at the convent knows Guinevere's identity in "Guinevere"?
(a) The abbess.
(b) The porter.
(c) The nuns.
(d) No one.

5. Who is the one person to whom Guinevere talks in "Guinevere"?
(a) A novice.
(b) The priest.
(c) The abbess.
(d) The altar boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Sir Percivale tell the story of "The Holy Grail"?

2. To whom is Tristram married in "The Last Tournament"?

3. Who does Pelleas fight in the ending of "Pelleas and Ettarre"?

4. Where does Arthur tell Guinevere he hopes to see her again in "Guinevere"?

5. What color eyes does Ettarre have in "Pelleas and Ettarre"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does "Pelleas and Ettarre" interplay with the other stories of Idylls of the King?

2. What is happening to Camelot in "The Last Tournament"?

3. Describe the allegory of Eden in "Guinevere."

4. What allegory does Tennyson refer to in "To the Queen"?

5. What does the exposition reveal of the diamonds in "Lancelot and Elaine"?

6. What does Percivale give as the exposition of how the Holy Grail came about?

7. Describe the allusions to Christ in "The Passing of Arthur."

8. What is Tennyson's viewpoint of the oath of marriage in "Lancelot and Elaine"?

9. What is Arthur's justification for his anger at the knights for taking the oath in "The Holy Grail"?

10. How does Tennyson depict Gawain in "Pelleas and Ettarre"?

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