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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times is Peredur able to mend the sword after cutting through the column?
(a) Twice
(b) Once
(c) Ten times
(d) Three times

2. What is the name of the woman who Culhwch was destined to take as wife?
(a) Ysbaddaden
(b) Olwen
(c) Goewin
(d) Gwen

3. What is the first strange thing that Peredur sees in the forest?
(a) Goats without horns
(b) A white stag
(c) Knights on horseback
(d) Angels

4. What does Culhwch's father see that lets him know it is time to take a second wife?
(a) A double-headed briar growing on his wife's grave
(b) Six white deer in the forest
(c) A beautiful maiden in his court
(d) Seven swans flying in formation over his hall

5. Where does Llud bury the captured pigs?
(a) The White Mount in London
(b) Dinas Emreis
(c) Cornwall
(d) Caer Llion

6. What time of year is it when Enid laments that her husband is falling into a decline?
(a) Spring
(b) Winter
(c) Summer
(d) Fall/Autumn

7. Which of the following is one of Cei's supernatural abilities?
(a) The ability to grow as tall as a tree at will
(b) The ability to see in total darkness when even a cat cannot see
(c) The ability of understanding the speech of birds and animals
(d) The ability to make himself invisible

8. How do the Countess's chamberlains plan to execute Luned?
(a) Hanging
(b) Decapitation
(c) Drowning
(d) Burning

9. Which of the following is not one of the plagues?
(a) Fire-breathing dragons carrying off maidens
(b) The invasion of the Coranieid folk
(c) The food in the king's court vanishing
(d) A terrible scream every May Eve

10. What relation is Culhwch to Arthur?
(a) His great-nephew
(b) His nephew
(c) His second cousin
(d) His first cousin

11. Which of the following does the original writer not give as one of the things that makes this tale nearly impossible to learn by heart?
(a) The banners on the pavillions
(b) The colors on the mantles
(c) The colors on the horses
(d) The magic stones

12. Who takes the ring from Owein?
(a) Luned
(b) An unnamed maiden
(c) The Lady of the Fountain
(d) Gwenhwyfar

13. What relation is the Lame King to Peredur?
(a) His father
(b) His cousin
(c) His uncle
(d) His grandfather

14. Where do the pure black troop come from?
(a) Ireland
(b) Denmark
(c) Sweden
(d) France

15. What does the lion bring to Owein to prove its loyalty to him?
(a) A horse and armour
(b) A roebuck and firewood
(c) A new sword
(d) A precious stone

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Arthur's warband first find Twrch Trwyth?

2. How does Cynon return back to Arthur's court after the black knight takes his horse?

3. Which of the following does Gereint not find in the orchards in the mists?

4. What prevents Llud and Llefelys talking to each other?

5. Which of the following is not one of the results of the terrible scream?

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