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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the woman tell the king to suggest to her husband on the third day?
(a) They should go hunting together.
(b) He should return home.
(c) He should leave for Jerusalem.
(d) They each take a bath.

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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 an act in the circus.
(d) He makes him a knight.

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

9. What would happen if Bisclavret could not find his clothes?
(a) He would be embarrassed.
(b) He would need new clothes.
(c) He would remain a werewolf forever.
(d) He would be naked.

10. When Lanval's love comes to him, how will she appear to everyone else?
(a) Terrifying.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Unusual.
(d) Invisible.

11. How does the woman respond to Equitan?
(a) Sadly.
(b) Happily.
(c) Angrily.
(d) Reluctantly.

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

13. What does the woman realize about Le Fresne?
(a) Le Fresne is her servant's lost daughter.
(b) Le Fresne is her lost daughter.
(c) Le Fresne is her neighbor's lost daughter.
(d) Le Fresne should be her daughter's maid.

14. What does the woman want the knight to do?
(a) Banish her husband.
(b) Protect her husband.
(c) Kill her husband.
(d) Steal her husband's clothes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. He returns to the king's court and does what?

2. What does the woman fear?

3. Who lives in a nearby region and loves the princess?

4. What does the woman do to the baby?

5. What does Guigemar tie around her?

(see the answer keys)

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