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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much do Rachel and Vidas pay the Cid in exchange for the chests?
(a) 400 marks.
(b) 600 marks.
(c) 500 marks.
(d) 100 marks.

2. How does King Alphonso react to his gifts in Sections 47 and 48?
(a) He is pleased.
(b) He gives them to the Cid's wife and daughters.
(c) He is dissatisfied.
(d) He never receives them.

3. What does the Cid plan to do to the inhabitants of Alcocer?
(a) Create a treaty with them.
(b) Avoid them.
(c) Pay tribute to them.
(d) Trick them.

4. What does the Cid decide to do in Section 45?
(a) Leave Alcocer.
(b) Send for his wife and daughters.
(c) Petition the king to have his banishment removed.
(d) Return to Vivar.

5. How long does the siege by the Moors last?
(a) A month.
(b) Two days.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Twelve hours.

6. Why does the Cid want to go to San Pedro de Cardeña?
(a) To visit his family.
(b) To go into hiding.
(c) To rest.
(d) To escape persecution.

7. How many days does the Cid agree to wait after visiting Castile?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

8. Who is offered a fifth of the Cid's booty as a reward?
(a) Minaya.
(b) Galve.
(c) Álvar.
(d) The king.

9. Who comes to the Cid in a dream in Section 19?
(a) His daughters.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) His wife.
(d) The Angel Gabriel.

10. Who wins the battle between the Cid and the count?
(a) The count.
(b) No one; they work out an agreement without fighting.
(c) The Celts.
(d) The Cid.

11. Who does the Cid inform of his intent to stay in the slopes in Section 27?
(a) Álvar Fáñez.
(b) The Moors.
(c) His family.
(d) King Alphonso.

12. What do the Cid's victories show, according to Section 65?
(a) God is on his side.
(b) He is a supreme warrior.
(c) King Alphonso will regret banishing him.
(d) He deserves to be able to return home.

13. How many horsemen does the Cid have?
(a) Ninety-seven.
(b) Five hundred.
(c) Three hundred.
(d) Nearly a hundred.

14. What does the Cid ask in return for his gift to King Alphonso in Section 77?
(a) That he can return to his homeland.
(b) That King Alphonso will send an equal number of soldiers to fight with the Cid.
(c) Nothing; it is a gift.
(d) That his family can join him in the land he has conquered.

15. Who is struck in Section 39?
(a) King Fáriz.
(b) The Cid.
(c) Minaya.
(d) Galve.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Cid send to the church in Section 41?

2. How many knights accompany Minaya to Valencia in Section 83?

3. What happens to the Cid's followers in Section 18?

4. What do the Cid and his men set up at the Castejón de Henares?

5. How many horses does the Cid want given as a gift?

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