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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Bisclavret is missing a year, what does everyone assume?
(a) He has been captured.
(b) He no longer loves his wife.
(c) He will never return.
(d) His wife will never marry again.

2. What happens to the deceitful wife?
(a) She is killed.
(b) She is unable to have children.
(c) She is banished from the kingdom.
(d) She gives birth to twin girls later that year.

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 believe Le Fresne to be only a lowly orphan.
(c) He is need of monetary support.
(d) They want him to be happy.

4. When the woman calls her husband and confesses her crime, does he forgive her?
(a) Not at first.
(b) Yes.
(c) Partially.
(d) No.

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

6. While the woman's husband is out of the room, what do the woman and the king do?
(a) They pack her belongings.
(b) They plot to kill him.
(c) They write the husband a Dear John letter.
(d) They begin to make love on the bed.

7. Why does this man try to persuade the princess to elope with him?
(a) He could never meet her father's challenge.
(b) He does not love her enough to attempt the climb.
(c) He is old and feeble.
(d) He is afraid of the test.

8. Who lives in a nearby region and loves the princess?
(a) A young and handsome king.
(b) A young and valiant knight.
(c) An old knight.
(d) A young king.

9. What does the woman convince a knight from a nearby land to do?
(a) Protect her husband.
(b) Be her husband.
(c) Kill her husband.
(d) Help her trap her husband.

10. Impressed by the creature's apparent intelligence, what does the king do?
(a) He helps him find his clothes.
(b) He spares its life and takes Bisclavret back to his castle to live.
(c) He makes him a knight.
(d) He makes him an act in the circus.

11. Near a high mountain is what city?
(a) The city of Nice.
(b) The city of Caens.
(c) The city of Pitres.
(d) The city of Pyres.

12. What does the woman fear?
(a) He will kill her husband.
(b) It is only a trick.
(c) After a while he will find another woman.
(d) He is cruel.

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

14. What happens when they are discovered by her husband?
(a) He divorces his wife.
(b) He sets Guigemar adrift in the same ship that first carried him.
(c) He attempts to kill Guigemar.
(d) He leaves them so they can be together.

15. When Guigemar returns home, what happens?
(a) He falls in love with another woman.
(b) He finds a good job.
(c) Many women try to untie the knot in his shirt, but cannot.
(d) No women are interested in him.

Short Answer Questions

1. When another woman is chosen to be the lord's wife, what does Le Fresne do?

2. Why does the king not wish to give his daughter up in marriage?

3. Believing this, what does the husband of the woman with the twins do?

4. Does the lover listen to the princess's advice?

5. When Lanval's love comes to him, how will she appear to everyone else?

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