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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Charlemagne's sword?
(a) Murgles
(b) Joiuse
(c) Jozerans
(d) Norman

2. What adorns Baligant's shield?
(a) Sapphires
(b) Human bones
(c) Crystal
(d) Mud

3. How many people came to tend to Alda?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 7
(d) 12

4. What Christian name is adopted by Bromimonde?
(a) Esther
(b) Therese
(c) Maria
(d) Juliana

5. What does Baligant promise to avenge?
(a) Roland's death
(b) The insult to Saragossa
(c) The loss of Marsile's hand
(d) Capture of Bromimonde

6. What is Ganelon's defense against his crime?
(a) Vengeance
(b) Melancholy
(c) Insanity
(d) Trickery

7. Who prepares Roland for burial?
(a) Charlemagne
(b) Turpin
(c) Naimon
(d) Bromimonde

8. Where is Charlemagne supposed to go?
(a) Anjou
(b) Bire
(c) Sebre
(d) Saragossa

9. After Charlemagne's call, how many Saracens attack Turpin and Roland?
(a) 700
(b) 100
(c) 1,000
(d) 400

10. Ganelon claims that he must protect what?
(a) His business
(b) His vast fortune
(c) Family honor
(d) His sickly wife

11. Who steps forward to help Ganelon?
(a) Pinabel
(b) Bavier
(c) Naimon
(d) Theirry

12. In what is Charlemagne most interested?
(a) Vengeance
(b) Claiming Spain
(c) Capturing Marsile
(d) Mourning Roland

13. The Saracens fear that if Charlemagne saves Roland, they will lose what item(s)?
(a) Their king
(b) Ownership of Spain
(c) Their horses
(d) Their lives

14. Who is left to defend Charlemagne?
(a) Thierry
(b) Geifreit
(c) Alverne
(d) Pinabel

15. Who comes to Roland at the end of this part of the poem?
(a) Marsile
(b) Turpin
(c) Charlemagne
(d) Angels

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charlemagne remove from Roland?

2. Who is Malprimis?

3. What body of water is used by Baligant's men?

4. Who objects to a plan to attack Charlemagne once again?

5. Where is Charlemagne when Baligant receives the news?

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