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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. Why does Aladine agree to her terms?

2. What had this Biblical character done that was so similar to Aladine's actions?

3. Whose help does the poet invoke?

4. Particular attention is paid to whom?

5. Is Armida able to have any effect on Godfrey or Tancred?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan does Clorinda formulate?

2. How does Argantes feel about Soliman? How does this affect his behavior?

3. What happens when the Crusaders attempt to build a new siege tower?

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

5. What is this story about?

6. What does the Muslim ruler of Jerusalem do at this same time?

7. How does the story begin?

8. Where does Godfrey send two volunteers?

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

10. To what do Tancred and Argantes agree? What is the outcome of this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The greater the obstacle, the greater the victory.

Part 1) How is this seen in this poem?

Part 2) Why would people at this time believe this?

Part 3) Is this still true today? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Clorinda is a female warrior.

Part 1) Why is this significant?

Part 2) How does she differ from Sophronia? What is the purpose for these differences?

Part 3) What real figure might she represent? Who might she represent today? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Books 17and 18 lay the groundwork for the poem's climactic confrontations.

Part 1) Describe Books 17and 18. How do they lay the groundwork for the poem's climactic confrontations on a literal level?

Part 2) How do they lay the groundwork for the poem's climactic confrontations on a symbolic level?

Part 3) How do these books affect the reader? How do they affect the sense of the poem? Is it more suspenseful? Bittersweet? Sad? Why?

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