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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. While fighting in the tournament in disguise, why does Lancelot flee from blows and avoid battle?
(a) Because he is not a very good fighter.
(b) Because the Queen told him to "do your best."
(c) Because he wishes to meet death in battle.
(d) Because the Queen told him to "do your worst."

2. Who do Lancelot and other knights set out to search for after his fight with Meleagant has ended?
(a) King Arthur.
(b) Sir Gawain.
(c) Queen Guinevere.
(d) Kay.

3. What does the lion prepare to do when he thinks Yvain is dead?
(a) Kill himself.
(b) Run away.
(c) Take Yvain's body back to Laudine.
(d) Eat Yvain.

4. What must Lancelot agree to for lodgings that is provided by the knight's maiden?
(a) To kiss her.
(b) To kill her.
(c) To marry her.
(d) To lay with her.

5. The people of town warn Yvain that great shame awaits. This foreshadows what?
(a) His defeat by the demon-spawn brothers.
(b) The adventure with two demon-spawn brothers.
(c) Defeat by Sir Gawain.
(d) Betrayal by the lion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the dwarf tell Lancelot to do?

2. Who helps Yvain regain sanity?

3. Who offers to help Yvain escape after he is trapped?

4. Who vows to fight for Lancelot against Meleagant within a year if Lancelot is not found?

5. In the beginning of The Knight with the Lion, to whom is the queen speaking when she says, "You are malicious and ill bred to quarrel with your companions"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the dispute between the two daughters of the Lord of Blackthorn?

2. What are two ways that Yvain shows his love for Laudine?

3. In The Knight of the Cart, why does the girl who offers lodging to Lancelot try to keep him from seeing the comb?

4. What shame follows Lancelot throughout his adventures in The Knight of the Cart?

5. Briefly compare and contrast King Bademagu and his son, Meleagant, from The Knight of the Cart.

6. Why does Lunete offer to help Yvain escape when he is trapped?

7. What are a few examples of Lancelot's demonstrating his love for the Queen in The Knight of the Cart?

8. In the beginning of The Knight of the Cart, the knight who appears in the beginning and issues a challenge foreshadows what?

9. What indicates Yvain's fame?

10. What are some instances in which Lancelot's appeal to women is depicted?

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