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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Argillan is released from prison, and fights viciously in support of whom?

2. About what do the Egyptian-led soldiers brag?

3. Why was the queen kept prisoner?

4. When Soliman is led into Aladine's council chamber, what does he overhear?

5. Why did the queen fear for Clorinda's life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Prince of Norway dies.

Part 1) Describe this part of the book. Why is this significant?

Part 2) What does this say about Christian sacrifice? Where else is Christian sacrifice mentioned? Why?

Part 3) What contrasts are shown? What does this say about staying with the true faith?

Essay Topic 2

There are stories of both Clorinda's childhood and death.

Part 1) Describe these stories. What do these stories reveal about Clorinda?

Part 2) What do these stories reiterate?

Part 3)What symbols are used to define and reinforce this interpretation? How does her life connect with historical facts? Why?

Essay Topic 3

The key purpose of Books 19 and 20 is to bring to a climactic close several of the poem's key elements.

Part 1) What are the poem's key elements that come to a close in this chapter? How do they come to a close?

Part 2) With what questions does this poem leave the reader? Why? What is the purpose of this?

Part 3) Are the questions a reader would have today about this poem be the same questions one would have had when the poem was written? Why or why not?

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