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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Charlemagne's place among his army?
(a) In the front
(b) Charlemagne does not fight
(c) In the exact center
(d) In the back

2. How does Alda die?
(a) From a broken heart
(b) Falls on Roland's sword
(c) She drinks poison
(d) She is trampled by horses

3. What does Turpin try to do before he collapses?
(a) Fetch water
(b) Revive Roland
(c) Pray
(d) Convert the remaining Saracens

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

5. What does the Saracen try to steal from Roland?
(a) Shoes
(b) Money
(c) Sword
(d) Horse

6. Who was not at the front of the battle formation?
(a) Duke of Trace
(b) Count Oger
(c) Danish chief
(d) Tedbald of Reims

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

8. Above whose altar is the horn laid?
(a) St. Peter
(b) St. Paul
(c) St. Gabriel
(d) St. Sevrin

9. What does Charlemagne do in the very last stanza?
(a) Rides off to war
(b) Dies
(c) Weeps
(d) Sleeps

10. What does Roland use to kill the Saracen?
(a) Horn
(b) Rock
(c) Fists
(d) Sword

11. What does Charlemagne remove from Roland?
(a) Heart
(b) Shoes
(c) Armor
(d) Sword

12. What word does Baligant use to describe Charlemagne?
(a) Foolish
(b) Ruthless
(c) Fierce
(d) Powerless

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

14. Who is Malprimis?
(a) Roland's brother
(b) Charlemagne's second in command
(c) Marsile's brother
(d) Baligant's son

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Charlemagne's sword?

2. What word does Charlemagne use against the governors?

3. Who is at Charlemagne's side when he arrives at the battleground?

4. What is the name of the newly besieged king?

5. Baligant would have made a great warrior if only:

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