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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. Who decides he wants to be the replacement, assumes Renaldo was going to get the job, and speaks badly about him around the camp?

2. Whose help does the poet invoke?

3. Who is the Muslim ruler of Jerusalem?

4. What do Argantes and Aletes warn the Crusaders?

5. What does Renaldo say as he refuses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after Erminia becomes lost and spends a night in the woods?

2. Where does Godfrey send two volunteers?

3. What is Argantes doing back in Jerusalem?

4. What does the Muslim leader end up doing?

5. What does Aladine do on the advice of a sorcerer?

6. What does Satan do?

7. What happens as water and supplies become scarce?

8. What does Clorinda learn about her origins?

9. What is happening at the camp of Godfrey and the Crusaders?

10. What do Olino and Clorinda do regarding the missing statue?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Women in this poem start as enemies.

Part 1) How and why do they start as enemies? What is the ideal woman like? How do you know this?

Part 2) How does this emphasize the unusual qualities of the warrior woman?

Part 3) How do the religious beliefs of the people of this day support this belief about women?

Essay Topic 2

The ways Erminia and Tancred are welcomed in Book 7 are contrasting.

Part 1) How are they welcomed? How are these welcomes contrasting?

Part 2) What is the purpose for this contrast?

Part 3) What does this contrast reveal about the characters in this story?

Essay Topic 3

A theme relates to woman as a distraction.

Part 1) How are women distractions in this poem?

Part 2) How is this thematic?

Part 3) What does this reveal about the mindset of people at the time the poem is written and the time in which the story takes place?

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