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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the king reward Bisclavret?
(a) With a title.
(b) With a new wife.
(c) With half of the kingdom.
(d) With land and riches.

2. Why does the king not wish to give his daughter up in marriage?
(a) He will be lonely.
(b) He trusts no one.
(c) He is devoted to his daughter.
(d) He has found no worthy men.

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

4. A ship takes the lady to a castle owned by whom?
(a) A lord named Meriaduc.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her love.
(d) Her neighbor.

5. Many men try for she is very beautiful. Do any succeed?
(a) Yes.
(b) A few.
(c) Only one.
(d) No.

6. When another woman is chosen to be the lord's wife, what does Le Fresne do?
(a) She continues to serve Gurun faithfully.
(b) She hides in her room.
(c) She leaves Gurun's home.
(d) She begs him to not marry the woman.

7. About what is Bisclavret's wife concerned?
(a) Five days of every week her husband disappears.
(b) Three days of every week her husband disappears.
(c) Four days of every week her husband disappears.
(d) Six days of every week her husband disappears.

8. What does the king decree regarding his daughter?
(a) Any man who wishes to marry her must be able to carry her to the top of the nearby mountain without resting.
(b) Any man who wishes to marry her must be very wealthy.
(c) Any man who wishes to marry her must move into the king's castle.
(d) Any man who wishes to marry her must marry someone else instead.

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

10. What rumor does one wife spread about having twins?
(a) It is the result of having had sex with two different men.
(b) It is unnatural.
(c) Her twins will fight one another.
(d) It is a sign of the devil.

11. Why does the woman say Lanval will no longer want for money?
(a) The more he spends the more he will have.
(b) He will no longer want money.
(c) She is going to kill him.
(d) He needs only her.

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

13. How does the king's lover still feel?
(a) Happy.
(b) Sad.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Worried.

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

15. What is Guigemar's one flaw?
(a) He does not enjoy being a knight.
(b) He cannot tell the truth.
(c) He shows no interest in romance.
(d) He loves many people.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Le Fresne grows into womanhood, what happens?

2. Guigemar rides away to the sea where he discovers what?

3. What will happen to Guigemar if he does not suffer greatly in love?

4. What will the woman then do to her husband?

5. When the man's wife is sent to speak to Equitan, what does he do?

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