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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Equitan say about the woman's husband?
(a) If her husband were dead, he would be free to marry her.
(b) He should go fight in the Crusades.
(c) He is a fool to not treat his wife better.
(d) If she truly loved Equitan, she would divorce her husband.

2. What happens the night before the tournament?
(a) The king requests the service of all his knights.
(b) A battle breaks out among all the knights who have assembled.
(c) The knights are all killed.
(d) The woman cancels the tournament.

3. What reputation does Lanval soon gain?
(a) For being generous and living honorably.
(b) For being a coward and uncertain.
(c) For being rich and attractive.
(d) For being brave and mighty.

4. When the king discovers the lovers, what does he do?
(a) He marries his daughter to someone else.
(b) He marries them.
(c) He orders a marble tomb to be built on the mountainside where they died.
(d) He orders them to leave each other at once.

5. Fearing they will be discovered, what does Guigemar's love do to the tail of his shirt?
(a) She tucks it in his pants.
(b) She cuts it off.
(c) She braids it.
(d) She ties an intricate knot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lanval is a worthy knight in the service of Arthur, but when Arthur hands out rewards to his knights, what happens to Lanval?

2. When her husband asks why she goes to the window every night, what does she say?

3. About what is Bisclavret's wife concerned?

4. What will the woman name her son?

5. Where does the woman conceal her reply?

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