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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ganelon's plan once he reaches Saragossa?
(a) Subservience
(b) Trickery
(c) Begging
(d) Bullying

2. Who is the ruler of the region?
(a) Marsile
(b) Olivier
(c) Marseilles
(d) Roland

3. Who is sent ahead to act as lookout for Roland?
(a) Naimon
(b) Oliver
(c) Ganelon
(d) Basan

4. Who is Aelroth?
(a) A pagan lookout
(b) Marsile's brother
(c) Marsile's nephew
(d) Oliver's brother

5. Which one of the following is not a reason to summon Charlemagne?
(a) Charlemagne will reward the surviving French soldiers
(b) Charlemagne can kill the rest of the Saracens
(c) Charlemagne can retrieve the dead
(d) Charlemagne will save the bodies from being eaten by animals

6. How do Charlemagne's people refer to themselves?
(a) Prussian
(b) Undeserving
(c) Franks
(d) Loyal

7. Under what type tree does Charlemagne sit?
(a) Birch
(b) Umbrella
(c) Pine
(d) Oak

8. Marsile is concerned about his lack of what item?
(a) Wit
(b) Faith
(c) Army
(d) Weapons

9. What gift did Roland give to Charlemagne?
(a) Apple
(b) Sword
(c) Drawing
(d) Fever

10. What plagues the soldiers on the field?
(a) Locusts
(b) Thunderstorm
(c) Unbearable heat
(d) Snow

11. What country is the poem written about?
(a) Norway
(b) Portugal
(c) France
(d) Italy

12. Which animal was tethered with a leash?
(a) Bear
(b) Greyhound
(c) Lion
(d) Hawk

13. Who does Ganelon refer to as a "courteous paladin?"
(a) Basan
(b) Oliver
(c) Roland
(d) Basilie

14. What is a Saracen?
(a) Nomad
(b) Muslim
(c) Priest
(d) Shoemaker

15. What gift does Marsile give to Ganelon?
(a) His sword
(b) Jewels
(c) His wife
(d) Sable skins

Short Answer Questions

1. What event will be celebrated with Charlemagne?

2. Where is Charlemagne's home?

3. The gift is worth more than what amount of money?

4. What region remains beyond Charlemagne's grasp?

5. How does Roland repay Grandoine?

(see the answer keys)

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