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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. How do the king and his court react to Bisclavret's behavior?

2. How does Lanval's lover affect everyone?

3. What does the king decree regarding his daughter?

4. Later, while the king is staying with Bisclavret near the home of Bisclavret's wife, the creature sees his wife and does what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the woman's scheme?

2. What does the king do at the end of the story?

3. How does Meriaduc learn of the lady's love for another man? What does he do about this?

4. Who comes to this woman's rescue?

5. What does the woman do so she may marry a knight from a nearby land?

6. What happens when Milun returns home after achieving fame as a knight?

7. For what are the king's advisers eager? How does the woman feel about the situation?

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

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

10. What does the husband do with the nightingale?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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