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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) The king requests the service of all his knights.
(c) A battle breaks out among all the knights who have assembled.
(d) The knights are all killed.

2. From where do knights come for this tournament?
(a) The local villages.
(b) Far away.
(c) The kingdom.
(d) The woman's home town.

3. What does Eliduc convince Guilliadun to do?
(a) To return with him by sea to his homeland.
(b) To marry him.
(c) To be his servant.
(d) To leave him alone.

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

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

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

7. How does her husband respond to his wife's answer for why she stands at her window?
(a) He laughs in spite.
(b) He cries.
(c) He ignores her.
(d) He becomes very angry.

8. Milun returns home after achieving fame as a knight. What does he discover?
(a) His love no longer loves him.
(b) His love is a nun.
(c) His love has married.
(d) His love has become ill.

9. What does the lady do for the fourth knight?
(a) She finds him a suitable wife.
(b) She banishes him.
(c) She has him nursed back to health.
(d) She has him buried with honor.

10. What do Isolde and this person do when she has to leave?
(a) Argue.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Yell.
(d) Weep.

11. After two days what is Eliduc surprised to see, regarding Guilliadun?
(a) She still has color in her cheeks.
(b) She is dead.
(c) She no longer loves him.
(d) She has returned home.

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

13. What does the woman send to her lover?
(a) A poem and a note explaining what has happened.
(b) A magic ring and a note explaining what has happened.
(c) The body of the nightingale and a note explaining what has happened.
(d) A picture of herself and a note explaining what has happened.

14. Why can the knight not meet his love in person?
(a) He fears for her life.
(b) She is afraid of him.
(c) She is so closely protected.
(d) She lives far away.

15. A beautiful lady is courted by whom?
(a) Five brave and handsome knights.
(b) Four brave and handsome knights.
(c) Seven brave and handsome knights.
(d) Six brave and handsome knights.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Eliduc banished?

2. How does the woman find her lover in his castle?

3. How does she feel about receiving the letter from the knight?

4. What does Chevrefoil mean?

5. What does the woman's lover do with what she has sent him?

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