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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. In stanza ten of "Pearl," what does the narrator say fills the pool?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Reflections of fall.
(c) Withered leaves.
(d) Jewels.

2. What does the narrator of "Pearl" call himself in stanza twenty-one?
(a) Void victim.
(b) Joyless jeweler.
(c) Sorrowful sinner.
(d) Forelorn father.

3. What does Sir Gawain ask the Green Knight to "restrain thee to"?
(a) Pride.
(b) One stroke.
(c) Humbleness.
(d) Pity.

4. What saint does Pearl quote in stanza thirty-nine?
(a) Mark.
(b) Peter.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Paul.

5. Where does the narrator say that Paradise is in stanza twelve of "Pearl"?
(a) "Across those banks was yonder laid."
(b) "Here, now, I am in it."
(c) "Across a divide too far to bear."
(d) "Too far to be close."

Short Answer Questions

1. How wide is the axe that the man emerges from the cave with?

2. In "Sir Orfeo," what instrument is taken "in delight" to make a lay and "named it right?

3. Where does Sir Orfeo immediately go after hearing that Lady Heurodis is gone?

4. Who is the Queen of Courtesy?

5. What is the first word that Sir Gawain hears as he approaches the chapel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Sir Orfeo plays his harp in the woods?

2. What does Sir Gawain say as he leaves "the lord's" castle for the Green Chapel?

3. What does Sir Gawain do with the silk belt on the morning he leaves for the Green Chapel?

4. What does Lady Heurodis say happens while she is sleeping under a tree in the orchard?

5. Why does Pearl say that the narrator is not a gentle jeweler?

6. What does Sir Gawain do on New Year's day as he rises?

7. What does Pearl say happens to all whom enter the kingdom of God?

8. What does Pearl say will happen if the narrator accepts God's plan for him?

9. Why do Sir Orfeo's grandparents possess the names that they do?

10. How is the narrator's pearl compared to Jerusalem's Lamb?

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