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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. What happens to the deceitful wife?

2. Many men try for she is very beautiful. Do any succeed?

3. Why does the woman say Lanval will no longer want for money?

4. Who falls in love with Le Fresne and convinces her to come away with him?

5. Equitan promises he will never take another and tells her that in love she is the master and he her subject. How does she respond to this?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when the king learns what has happened to Bisclavret?

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. Who is Eliduc? What has happened to him?

6. How do Milun and his son meet for the first time?

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

8. How does Eliduc fall in love with Guilliadun?

9. What does the lady intend to write for the four knights? What does the knight think she should call it?

10. What excuse does the woman get for gazing out her window at night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

In Milun, a parallel is made between various aspects of the story.

Part 1) What parallel events take place? How are they similar?

Part 2) What is the purpose for these parallel events?

Part 3) How are these events similar to events found in other stories in this book?

Essay Topic 3

Some stories involve a child that learns as an adult the truth of his parentage.

Part 1) Describe these stories. How do they learn about their parentage?

Part 2) How does this knowledge help them? At the time the stories were written, what would be the main purpose for knowing one's parentage?

Part 3) How is that reason the same or different today?

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