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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When they do not return from the top, what does the king do?
(a) He climbs up after them.
(b) He curses them.
(c) He goes home.
(d) He asks his servants to go up after them.

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

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

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

5. He returns to the king's court and does what?
(a) Announces his intention to take the challenge.
(b) Asks for a personal trainer.
(c) Tells her father they are eloping.
(d) Proposes a compromise.

6. When Le Fresne goes to live at the lord's castle with him, do they marry?
(a) Probably.
(b) No.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Yes.

7. Satisfied that Lanval has been vindicated, what does Arthur do to Lanval?
(a) He lets Lanval be a knight again.
(b) He marries Lanval and his love.
(c) He releases Lanval.
(d) He allows Lanval to return to the kingdom.

8. How does the lady resolve to kill herself?
(a) By poisoning herself.
(b) By jumping into the sea.
(c) By stabbing herself.
(d) By hanging herself.

9. Why does the lover refuse what the princess has to offer?
(a) He no longer wants to climb.
(b) He says he has the strength to go on.
(c) He is annoyed by her.
(d) He is tired.

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

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

12. Believing this, what does the husband of the woman with the twins do?
(a) He begs his wife to explain what has happened.
(b) He fights the other woman's husband.
(c) He yells at his wife.
(d) He becomes jealous and locks her away unjustly.

13. What happens when he reaches the top?
(a) He runs down the mountain.
(b) He begins to cry.
(c) He collapses, dead.
(d) He kisses the princess.

14. Who falls in love with Le Fresne and convinces her to come away with him?
(a) An elderly knight.
(b) The king.
(c) A lord named Gurun.
(d) The neighbor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Bisclavret is missing a year, what does everyone assume?

2. When the lord finally consents, who do his knights present?

3. After the wedding, the bride's mother brings her into the bed chamber. What does she recognize?

4. Arthur's advisers decide that if Lanval can prove the truth of his claim, what will happen to him?

5. What is Guigemar's one flaw?

(see the answer keys)

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