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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does the king agree to this plan?
(a) Partially.
(b) Not at first.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

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

3. How does Lanval's lover affect everyone?
(a) Her beauty scares everyone.
(b) Her beauty stuns everyone.
(c) Her power scares everyone.
(d) Her power stuns everyone.

4. When the lover begins to slow, what does the princess do?
(a) She offers him the vial.
(b) She yells at him.
(c) She encourages him to continue.
(d) She tells him to go back.

5. What happens after these first maidens approach the court?
(a) Another three maidens arrives.
(b) Another four maidens arrives.
(c) Another five maidens arrives.
(d) Another pair of maidens arrives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the lover refuse what the princess has to offer?

2. Who are neighbors in this story?

3. What does the woman want the knight to do?

4. What is the woman forced to do?

5. Learning that the woman is married to the knight that Bisclavret attacked before, what does the king do to the knight?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does this story end?

2. What happens when Guigemar goes hunting?

3. How is Guigemar's life threatened? Why is it threatened? What is the conclusion of this story?

4. How does Bisclavret become a part of the king's household?

5. What happens after the maiden gives her child to her sister?

6. How does Lanval end up arrested?

7. How does the woman learn that Le Fresne is her lost daughter?

8. Why does a young wife need help?

9. What happens when Bisclavret sees his wife and her new husband? What are the reactions of others to Bisclavret's behavior?

10. What does Tristram do with a stick of hazel?

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