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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to the fourth knight?
(a) He has won the heart of the woman.
(b) He has been killed.
(c) He has returned home.
(d) He is badly wounded.

2. Eliduc cleverly helps defeat the king's enemies and is rewarded how?
(a) With power over the king's lands.
(b) With a bride.
(c) With knighthood.
(d) With his daughter's hand in marriage.

3. What will the woman name her son?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Yonec.
(c) Milo.
(d) Vonec.

4. Near Exeter, Eliduc comes across a king who is at war for what reason?
(a) He will not surrender his kingdom.
(b) He will not give away his beautiful daughter in marriage.
(c) Rumors have been spread about him.
(d) He wants more land and power.

5. Suddenly, a large hawk flies into her room and magically transforms into what?
(a) A king.
(b) A god.
(c) A handsome knight.
(d) A dragon.

6. Who does Tristram love?
(a) His neighbor.
(b) His step sister.
(c) The queen.
(d) His neihbor's wife.

7. What comes from beneath the altar?
(a) A rat.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A cat.
(d) A weasel.

8. What does Isolde see as she rides on the path?
(a) A pot cooking over a fire.
(b) Tristram.
(c) The stick.
(d) Smoke from the spell.

9. Why does the fourth knight believe he has suffered more than the other three?
(a) He can no longer fight.
(b) He can not marry the woman he loves.
(c) He misses his friends.
(d) He can take no pleasure with the one he loves.

10. What happens after the lady tells her son the story of his birth and gives him the gift from his true father?
(a) She then faints away, dead.
(b) She begs for forgiveness.
(c) She then runs away.
(d) She is killed by her husband.

11. Any time she wishes for him to appear, he will come how quickly?
(a) Within an hour.
(b) Within a day.
(c) Within a week.
(d) Within a minute.

12. What does the woman's lover give her?
(a) A bow and arrow.
(b) A sword and a magic ring.
(c) A dagger and a magic bracelet.
(d) A revolver and magic necklace.

13. When the woman's lover returns, he is mortally wounded by what?
(a) The spikes.
(b) The arrows.
(c) The poison.
(d) The sword.

14. He tells her he has always loved her, and what brought him to her?
(a) Her husband.
(b) God.
(c) Her faith.
(d) Her wish.

15. What does Tristram do to express the joy he felt at seeing his love again?
(a) He leaves the kingdom.
(b) He composes a lai.
(c) He proposes to her.
(d) He sends her poems.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can the knight not meet his love in person?

2. One of the knights falls deeply in love with whom?

3. What happens when Eliduc's wife sees Guilliadun?

4. In what town live two very valiant knights?

5. One evening what does the lady tell the fourth knight she intends to write?

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