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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pandarus say will help him help Troilus?
(a) His educated status.
(b) His money.
(c) His mistakes with women.
(d) His past.

2. What does Pandarus say makes women lonely in old age?
(a) Staying indoors.
(b) Being unkind.
(c) Wearing black.
(d) Rising above love.

3. Where is this poem set?
(a) Greece.
(b) Thebes.
(c) Troy.
(d) Rome.

4. How does Pandarus decide that it is a good time to see Criseyde?
(a) He asks a priest.
(b) He checks the horoscope.
(c) He sees her name on a house.
(d) He says a prayer.

5. What does Troilus do to leave the festival early?
(a) He pretends to be sick.
(b) He pretends he has important work to do.
(c) He reads a poem.
(d) He pays a fee.

6. What does Criseyde tell Pandarus would make her very happy when he visits her?
(a) A pardon for her treason charges.
(b) A new love interest.
(c) The return of her father.
(d) The end of the siege.

7. How does Chaucer describe Troilus' condition at the beginning of Book II?
(a) Sullen.
(b) Overwrought.
(c) All of the answer choices are correct.
(d) Hysterical.

8. Where was Hector wounded?
(a) His foot.
(b) His leg.
(c) His arm.
(d) His head.

9. How does Criseyde feel when Pandarus tells her to do something when he visits her?
(a) Shocked.
(b) Joyful.
(c) Reluctant.
(d) Annoyed.

10. Which of the following does Troilus say that he will never lose sleep over in Book I?
(a) Unfairness.
(b) Poverty.
(c) War.
(d) Women.

11. Troilus always mocks others for which of the following?
(a) Being poorly dressed.
(b) Being lovestruck.
(c) Speaking poorly.
(d) Getting drunk.

12. Why does Criseyde always wear one color?
(a) She has a missing child.
(b) She is a widow.
(c) She is a student.
(d) She is marked a traitor.

13. During which season do the people honor their patron God?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Fall.
(d) Winter.

14. Who finds Troilus crying?
(a) Hector.
(b) Paris.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Pandarus.

15. What does the narrator say helps Criseyde outshine all the other women?
(a) Her beauty.
(b) Her grace.
(c) Her noble stature.
(d) All of the answer choices are correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Chaucer address at the beginning of Book I?

2. Who is the patron God to Troilus' people?

3. Who does Pandarus say that Criseyde will condemn if she does not help Troilus?

4. In Book I, what kind of story does Chaucer say is in this poem?

5. What does Pandarus tell Criseyde that the dream that she had the night of the festival is likely to bring to her?

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