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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens the night before the tournament?
(a) The woman cancels the tournament.
(b) A battle breaks out among all the knights who have assembled.
(c) The knights are all killed.
(d) The king requests the service of all his knights.

2. One evening what does the lady tell the fourth knight she intends to write?
(a) A lai about the four knights.
(b) A lai about him.
(c) A lai about the king.
(d) A lai about her life.

3. What is the problem regarding the lady's courtship?
(a) She cannot decide among the seven knights.
(b) She cannot decide among the six knights.
(c) She cannot decide among the four knights.
(d) She cannot decide among the five knights.

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

5. Milun is the greatest knight in the land who takes the daughter of a nobleman as a lover, giving her what?
(a) A golden ring.
(b) Money.
(c) A necklace.
(d) Flowers.

6. When her husband asks why she goes to the window every night, what does she say?
(a) She is entranced by the river.
(b) She is in love with the neighbor and watches him.
(c) She is entranced by the song of the nightingale.
(d) She is entranced by the moon.

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

8. Who falls deeply in love with Eliduc?
(a) The king's daughter's maid.
(b) The queen's sister.
(c) The queen.
(d) The king's daughter.

9. In what town live two very valiant knights?
(a) St. Mattheu.
(b) St. Marie.
(c) St. Malo.
(d) St. Michele.

10. The lady gets out of bed every night to do what?
(a) Stand at her window and gaze at her lover.
(b) Pray for her love.
(c) Write a letter to her love.
(d) Look at the moon and think of her lover.

11. What happens when Eliduc's wife places a red flower in Guilliadun's mouth?
(a) Guilliadun is brought back to life.
(b) Guillaidun awakens and returns home to her father.
(c) Guilliadun becomes more beautiful.
(d) Guilliadun dies.

12. What does the husband do to make sure his wife is no longer kept awake?
(a) He hangs a very heavy curtain.
(b) He kills the nightingale.
(c) He shuts the window.
(d) He kills the neighbor.

13. What does Milun notice about the knight and realizes it is his son?
(a) His ring.
(b) His name.
(c) His necklace.
(d) His eyes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A beautiful lady is courted by whom?

2. When the woman's lover returns, he is mortally wounded by what?

3. What happens after the lady tells her son the story of his birth and gives him the gift from his true father?

4. She tells Milun to take the child to be raised by whom?

5. Why does Tristram hide here?

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