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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does the lover listen to the princess's advice?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Initially.
(d) Not at first.

2. What does Lanval's lover tell Arthur?
(a) Lanval is a liar.
(b) Lanval has been wrongly accused.
(c) Lanval should be punished.
(d) Lanval made a mistake.

3. What do these women do for Guigemar?
(a) They leave him alone.
(b) They hire a doctor.
(c) They give him medicine.
(d) They bandage his wound and hide him behind a curtain.

4. Guigemar rides away to the sea where he discovers what?
(a) A beautiful ebony ship with silken sails.
(b) A small dingy.
(c) A beautiful view.
(d) A beautiful woman.

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

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

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

8. When are the king's advisers dismayed?
(a) The king tells them he has no intention of marrying.
(b) The king says he will marry another woman.
(c) The king tells them he wants them to kill the woman's husband.
(d) The king tells them he is marrying the woman.

9. What does Guigemar tie around her?
(a) A girdle.
(b) A rope.
(c) A belt.
(d) A scarf.

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

11. What does the man do to his wife?
(a) He banishes her from his home.
(b) He begs her to take him back.
(c) He drowns her.
(d) He yells at her.

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

13. How does Lanval's lover affect everyone?
(a) Her beauty stuns everyone.
(b) Her power stuns everyone.
(c) Her beauty scares everyone.
(d) Her power scares everyone.

14. When the man's wife is sent to speak to Equitan, what does he do?
(a) He refuses to see the woman.
(b) He tells her she will love him as he loves her.
(c) He panics and asks her to leave.
(d) He uses the opportunity to tell her of his love and to ask for hers.

15. When the lover begins to slow, what does the princess do?
(a) She tells him to go back.
(b) She offers him the vial.
(c) She yells at him.
(d) She encourages him to continue.

Short Answer Questions

1. When they do not return from the top, what does the king do?

2. With whom does Guigemar fall in love?

3. Trapped, what does Bisclavret do?

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

5. The beautiful woman tells Lanval of her love for him and. How does Lanval respond?

(see the answer keys)

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