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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lanval.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Equitan is so affected he cannot sleep, and what happens?
(a) He begs for the woman to love him.
(b) He has his seneschal killed.
(c) He becomes angry.
(d) He falls ill.

2. What does the woman do to the baby?
(a) She wraps the baby in a fine cloth and ties a large golden ring to its arm.
(b) She gives her to her servant.
(c) She gives the baby to her sister to raise.
(d) She sets the baby in a basket by the river.

3. Why do the lord's knights still pressure him to marry a woman of noble birth?
(a) They do not like Le Fresne.
(b) They want him to be happy.
(c) They believe Le Fresne to be only a lowly orphan.
(d) He is need of monetary support.

4. Learning that the woman is married to the knight that Bisclavret attacked before, what does the king do to the knight?
(a) He banishes him.
(b) He arrests him.
(c) He tortures him.
(d) He has him killed.

5. As Le Fresne grows into womanhood, what happens?
(a) She wonders about her mother.
(b) She grows to be unruly.
(c) Her beauty becomes well known.
(d) She becomes angry and sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the woman's husband returns, what does the king do?

2. When Lanval tells the queen he has the love of a woman who is so fair that her servant is still more beautiful than the queen, what does the queen do?

3. While hunting near his home, Guigemar shoots what with an arrow?

4. What happens when they are discovered by her husband?

5. After the wedding, the bride's mother brings her into the bed chamber. What does she recognize?

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