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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. When Guigemar returns home, what happens?

2. What would happen if Bisclavret could not find his clothes?

3. Why does this man try to persuade the princess to elope with him?

4. With whom does Guigemar fall in love?

5. What does the woman do to the baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who comes to this woman's rescue?

2. How is Lanval's loyalty to King Arthur tested?

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

4. What happens when Guigemar first arrives at Meriaduc's castle?

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

6. How do the lovers show their love? What promise do they make to each other?

7. What leads the princess to tell the knight to get a potion from her aunt?

8. What does Isolde urge Tristram to do? Why do they weep?

9. What happens when Equitan falls in love?

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

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

Guigemar and the lady's love is unbreakable.

Part 1) How do you know it is unbreakable?

Part 2) How are these two rewarded for their unbreakable love and promise to each other?

Part 3) How is this metaphor still recognized today? How is this relevant to readers today?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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