View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Green Knight, when will the challenging knight receive his strikes?
(a) A year and a day.
(b) Within a fortnight.
(c) In four months time.
(d) By surprise.

2. What is the first question that the Green Knights asks Sir Gawain?
(a) What his lineage is.
(b) What his name is.
(c) If he is willing to die.
(d) His age.

3. What image, other than the pentangle, does Sir Gawain have on his shield?
(a) The image of the crucifixion.
(b) The image of Our Lady.
(c) The image of Christ.
(d) The image of the Cross.

4. Where is Sir Gawain to meet the Green Knight to receive his own blow?
(a) The woods that stay green year-round.
(b) The Green Chapel.
(c) The Green Knight's green castle.
(d) King Arthur's court.

5. What happens to the Green Knight's axe after he leaves Arthur's castle beheaded?
(a) Sir Gawain locks it away.
(b) Arthur puts it in a chest in his own bedroom.
(c) It is hung in Arthur's castle.
(d) It disappears.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does "the lord" say will sit with Sir Gawain while he is away?

2. While Sir Gawain is riding away, what do his well-wishers say he should be deemed?

3. How many miles away is the Green Chapel from "the lord's" castle?

4. What do "the lord" and Sir Gawain promise to give to each other?

5. What is another name for the pentangle?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 252 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample