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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the other woman's mother intend to have Le Fresne do?
(a) Marry someone else to get her out of Gurun's household.
(b) Marry Gurun's brother.
(c) Become her daughter's maidservant.
(d) Marry Gurun instead.

2. When do Equitan and the woman meet?
(a) On Sundays.
(b) At festivals.
(c) At night.
(d) In secret.

3. Who lives in a nearby region and loves the princess?
(a) A young and handsome king.
(b) An old knight.
(c) A young and valiant knight.
(d) A young king.

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

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

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

7. Why does the princess refuse to elope?
(a) It will devastate her father.
(b) She does not love the man enough.
(c) She does not want to marry.
(d) She is afraid her father will be angry.

8. What does Bisclavret admit to his wife?
(a) He is unhappy in his marriage.
(b) He has a mistress.
(c) He is a vampire.
(d) He is a werewolf.

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

10. Who does an old lord keep locked away?
(a) His parents.
(b) His daughter.
(c) His brother.
(d) His beautiful young wife.

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

12. Why do the lord's knights still pressure him to marry a woman of noble birth?
(a) They believe Le Fresne to be only a lowly orphan.
(b) They want him to be happy.
(c) They do not like Le Fresne.
(d) He is need of monetary support.

13. While hunting near his home, Guigemar shoots what with an arrow?
(a) A turkey.
(b) A bear.
(c) A white deer.
(d) A hog.

14. Lanval is a worthy knight in the service of Arthur, but when Arthur hands out rewards to his knights, what happens to Lanval?
(a) He refuses his reward.
(b) He is forgotten.
(c) He disappears.
(d) His reward is very small.

15. What does the woman fear?
(a) It is only a trick.
(b) He is cruel.
(c) After a while he will find another woman.
(d) He will kill her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman scheme?

2. 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?

3. Who falls in love with Le Fresne and convinces her to come away with him?

4. While out riding, how many beautiful maidens approach Lanval, calling him by name?

5. What happens when the princess throws herself down next to her love?

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