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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what section does the Third Cantar begin?
(a) 115.
(b) 113.
(c) 114.
(d) 112.

2. What does the Cid want to happen to the sons?
(a) He wants them to be killed.
(b) He wants them to be called to a judicial meeting.
(c) He wants them to be imprisoned.
(d) He wants them to be banished.

3. Where is the animal that gets loose in Section 112?
(a) In the hall where King Alphonso is sleeping.
(b) In the hall where the Cid is sleeping.
(c) In the hall where the Infantes of Carrión are sleeping.
(d) In the hall where the Cid's daughters are sleeping.

4. What does the king want to see happen in the situation with his sons?
(a) He wants to see the couples reunited.
(b) He wants to simply dissolve the marriages and forget the whole situation.
(c) He wants to see his sons apologize in public.
(d) He wants justice for the Cid's daughters.

5. Who overhears a conversation between the Infantes of Carrión about going to war?
(a) King Búcar.
(b) The Cid's wife.
(c) Minaya.
(d) Muño Gustioz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who begins a war with the Cid and his men in Section 113?

2. Who tells the Cid's wife and daughters of the upcoming marriages?

3. How many knights does the Cid send out to greet his wife and daughters in Section 85?

4. How does the Cid's wife react to the news of the marriages of her daughters?

5. How many men does the Cid gather to go to the hearing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ultimately decided about the marriage of the Cid's daughters? How is Minaya involved in the decision?

2. What is the Cid's decision regarding the marriage of his daughters? What does this reveal about him?

3. How does King Alphonso react to the gifts he receives in Section 100? What does this reveal about King Alphonso?

4. How are the Cid's wife and daughters introduced to the Cid's military side at Valencia? How do they each react?

5. What conditions does King Alphonso puts on the attendance of the judicial meeting set up in Toledo?

6. Who wants to marry the Cid's daughters in Section 101? What does King Alphonso say about this?

7. How does the Cid feel about the marriages of his daughters? How does he express this?

8. What happens to the Cid's daughters when the king's sons take them to the forest of the Corpes?

9. Why doesn't anyone notice the Cid's beard right away at the hearing? How does the Cid defend his beard?

10. How does the Cid greet his wife and children in Section 86? How does he introduce them to their new home?

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