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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 many knights accompany Minaya to Valencia in Section 83?

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

3. What count hears of the damage caused by the Cid on the Moorish countryside?

4. What does Martín Antolínez give to the Cid and his followers in Section 5?

5. Why is Álvar unhappy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does King Alphonso feel about the Cid at the end of Sections 64-83? How do you know?

2. How does the Cid trick the citizens of Alcocer?

3. Explain the sale of Minaya's booty to the Moors in Section 24.

4. Why are the inhabitants of Burgos unable to offer the Cid and his followers a place to stay? What would happen if they did?

5. What is the Cid's relationship with God? How do you know?

6. What does the Cid decide to do with the captives at Alcocer? What role do they then play for the Cid and his men?

7. Explain the circumstances of the Cid's victory over the Valencians.

8. How does the Cid react when an army of Moors and Christians is organized to fight him? What does this say about him?

9. Who sends Moors to the Cid to bring him in? How does the Cid react to this?

10. What does the Cid decide about his beard in Section 76? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a character biography of the Cid, including an explanation of what is important to him.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the opinion of King Alphonso towards the Cid changes over the course of the poem. What affected the opinion? What led to the Cid's full pardon?

Essay Topic 3

What evidence was present in the poem that the marriage between the king's sons and the Cid's daughters would not go well?

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