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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the lady arrange to hold a tournament?
(a) To show the king how much power she has.
(b) She is bored and wants to be entertained.
(c) For the knights to battle for the honor of her love.
(d) For the knights to practice their skills.

2. What does the woman's lover do with what she has sent him?
(a) He reads it every night to her out the window.
(b) He wears it for the rest of his life.
(c) He kisses her picture every day.
(d) He makes a jeweled box to hold the body of the nightingale.

3. Their son has learned the story of his parents and has grown into what?
(a) A kind man.
(b) A fearless knight with a broad reputation.
(c) A weak-minded tax collector.
(d) A reckless teenager.

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

5. Where does the woman conceal her reply?
(a) In the swan's feathers.
(b) Beneath the rug.
(c) In the same jeweled box.
(d) In another bouquet of flowers.

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

7. One of the knights falls deeply in love with whom?
(a) The wife of his butler.
(b) The wife of the other.
(c) His sister-in-law.
(d) His servant girl.

8. What has happened to three of the four knights?
(a) They are allowed to stay.
(b) They have returned home.
(c) The are asked to fight in the tournament.
(d) They are killed.

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

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

11. What does Isolde urge this person to do?
(a) Hide.
(b) Run away.
(c) Return to the kingdom.
(d) Marry her.

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

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

14. What happens when Eliduc's wife sees Guilliadun?
(a) She banishes her.
(b) Guilliadun's beauty overwhelms her.
(c) She bows down to her.
(d) She attempts to kill her.

15. Milun hears about a brave knight and determines to do what?
(a) Seek him out and challenge him.
(b) Learn from him.
(c) Meet him.
(d) See if he is his son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman send to her lover?

2. Who does Tristram love?

3. From where do knights come for this tournament?

4. The lady gets out of bed every night to do what?

5. What does King Mark do to Tristram?

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