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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While out riding, how many beautiful maidens approach Lanval, calling him by name?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

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

4. What does the princess tell her lover to do?
(a) Train for the climb.
(b) Climb the mountain.
(c) Go to her aunt for a potion to give him the strength to carry her up the mountain.
(d) Talk to her father and work out a compromise.

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

6. Arthur's advisers decide that if Lanval can prove the truth of his claim, what will happen to him?
(a) He may return to the kingdom.
(b) He may once again be a knight.
(c) He will be promoted.
(d) He will be released.

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

8. When the lord finally consents, who do his knights present?
(a) Le Poisson.
(b) La Codre.
(c) Le Mer.
(d) Le Chat.

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

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

11. Does the king agree to this plan?
(a) No.
(b) Not at first.
(c) Partially.
(d) Yes.

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

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

14. 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?
(a) She pretends as if she never heard him.
(b) She immediately tells Arthur what Lanval has said, telling him that it was she who spurned his advance.
(c) She begins to cry.
(d) She laughs saying he lies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the woman respond to Equitan?

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

3. What does Lanval's lover tell Arthur?

4. What happens to the deceitful wife?

5. Why does the lover refuse what the princess has to offer?

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