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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reputation does Lanval soon gain?
(a) For being a coward and uncertain.
(b) For being generous and living honorably.
(c) For being rich and attractive.
(d) For being brave and mighty.

2. Satisfied that Lanval has been vindicated, what does Arthur do to Lanval?
(a) He lets Lanval be a knight again.
(b) He marries Lanval and his love.
(c) He allows Lanval to return to the kingdom.
(d) He releases Lanval.

3. When the lover begins to slow, what does the princess do?
(a) She tells him to go back.
(b) She yells at him.
(c) She offers him the vial.
(d) She encourages him to continue.

4. He returns to the king's court and does what?
(a) Proposes a compromise.
(b) Tells her father they are eloping.
(c) Asks for a personal trainer.
(d) Announces his intention to take the challenge.

5. What does the woman fear?
(a) After a while he will find another woman.
(b) He is cruel.
(c) It is only a trick.
(d) He will kill her husband.

6. After the wedding, the bride's mother brings her into the bed chamber. What does she recognize?
(a) The veil.
(b) Le Fresne's face.
(c) The fine cloth on the bed.
(d) The ring on her daughter's finger.

7. While out riding, how many beautiful maidens approach Lanval, calling him by name?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

8. Who approaches the court?
(a) Two beautiful maidens.
(b) Five beautiful maidens.
(c) Four beautiful maidens.
(d) Three beautiful maidens.

9. How does Lanval's lover affect everyone?
(a) Her power scares everyone.
(b) Her beauty scares everyone.
(c) Her beauty stuns everyone.
(d) Her power stuns everyone.

10. Does the lover listen to the princess's advice?
(a) Initially.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Not at first.

11. How does the king's lover still feel?
(a) Sad.
(b) Worried.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Happy.

12. Who does an old lord keep locked away?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His beautiful young wife.
(c) His parents.
(d) His brother.

13. What is the woman forced to do?
(a) Return to her first husband.
(b) Return Bisclavret's clothes to him.
(c) Leave the kingdom.
(d) Beg for forgiveness.

14. Why do the lord's knights still pressure him to marry a woman of noble birth?
(a) He is need of monetary support.
(b) They do not like Le Fresne.
(c) They want him to be happy.
(d) They believe Le Fresne to be only a lowly orphan.

15. When the man's wife is sent to speak to Equitan, what does he do?
(a) He uses the opportunity to tell her of his love and to ask for hers.
(b) He tells her she will love him as he loves her.
(c) He panics and asks her to leave.
(d) He refuses to see the woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lanval respond when the queen approaches him when he is alone and offers her love to him?

2. When Lanval tells the queen he has the love of a woman who is so fair that her servant is still more beautiful than the queen, what does the queen do?

3. Believing this, what does the husband of the woman with the twins do?

4. When they do not return from the top, what does the king do?

5. On what does Lanval's lover enter?

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