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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 does Count García Ordóñez feel about the Cid's success?

2. The Moorish king of ______ decides to attack the Cid and his armies in Sections 88 and 89.

3. What does Fernando say about the Cid in Section 141?

4. Who subdues a lion in Section 112?

5. Who issues the challenge?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what happens in Section 112 when a lion gets loose in the home of the Cid in Valencia.

2. After the sons join the Cid in battle, where do they want to go? Why do they say they want to go?

3. What characteristic of an epic poem is evident in Sections 84-102?

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

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

6. What does the Cid's message to King Alphonso in Section 133 say?

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

8. How does the Cid protect the king's sons in battle the forces from Morocco? What is the reaction to this?

9. How do the Cid and Minaya react after the battle in regards to the king's sons? How do the sons react?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the relationship between the Cid's daughters and the king's sons.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how general citizens, such as the people of Alcocer, feel about the Cid. Why do they feel this way about him?

Essay Topic 3

Does "The Poem of the Cid" have a happy ending? Why or why not? If so, what makes it a happy ending? If not, how would it need to be changed to be a happy ending?

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