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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. Where are the Infantes of Carrión at the beginning of Section 112?

2. Who asks to be exempt from the court hearing in Section 135?

3. Who sends a message to King Alphonso at the end of Section 132?

4. What does the Cid want to happen to the sons?

5. What does the Cid decide about the marriage proposals?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Fernando say about the Cid? What does Fernando say about himself and his brother at the hearing?

4. Why does the Cid want to wait to go to the meeting? How does he spend this delayed time?

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

6. What two concerns does the Cid express about the marriage of his daughters to the king's sons?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the relationship between the Cid and the Moorish people.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What is the message of "The Poem of the Cid"?

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