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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where does Lanval follow these women?

2. What does Lanval's lover tell Arthur?

3. Impressed by the creature's apparent intelligence, what does the king do?

4. What will happen to Guigemar if he does not suffer greatly in love?

5. What does the woman convince a knight from a nearby land to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the knight do regarding the potion during his climb?

2. Why does Guilliadun's body end up in a chapel?

3. How does Eliduc's wife save Guilliadun?

4. How does a knight's wife end up locked away?

5. How does the seneschal's wife respond to the king's interests? Why does she respond this way?

6. What role does the king play in the woman's schemes?

7. What happens when Equitan falls in love?

8. What is odd about Lanval and this woman's love?

9. What does Bisclavret do when he turns into a werewolf? What does his wife insist on knowing about her husband?

10. How does Lanval end up arrested?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

in Eliduc, all three characters serve God in the end.

Part 1) How do they end up serving God? Why does the story end this way?

Part 2) How is this story similar and different to other stories in this book?

Part 3) What message does this story send?

Essay Topic 2

At many times during this book, adultery is not condemned.

Part 1) When is adultery not condemned? Why is it not condemned?

Part 2) How might readers at the time these stories were created react to this? Why might they react this way?

Part 3) How does the idea of adultery being noble affect readers today? Why?

Essay Topic 3

There is a theme of what goes around comes around.

Part 1) How is this a theme? What is meant by this?

Part 2) Is this theme relevant today? Why or why not?

Part 3) How might knowledge of this theme affect one's behavior?

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