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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. What does Bisclavret's wife insist on knowing?
(a) Where he hides his clothes.
(b) Where is spare clothing is located.
(c) Why he would be embarrassed.
(d) Why he must be naked.

2. What does the woman want the knight to do?
(a) Banish her husband.
(b) Steal her husband's clothes.
(c) Kill her husband.
(d) Protect her husband.

3. On what does Lanval's lover enter?
(a) A white horse.
(b) A black bull.
(c) A black horse.
(d) A white deer.

4. What rumor does one wife spread about having twins?
(a) It is a sign of the devil.
(b) Her twins will fight one another.
(c) It is the result of having had sex with two different men.
(d) It is unnatural.

5. Guigemar rides away to the sea where he discovers what?
(a) A beautiful ebony ship with silken sails.
(b) A beautiful view.
(c) A small dingy.
(d) A beautiful woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does an old lord keep locked away?

2. What does the other woman's mother intend to have Le Fresne do?

3. What will happen to Guigemar if he does not suffer greatly in love?

4. What does the woman do to the baby?

5. How does the king reward Bisclavret?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the seneschal's wife respond to the king's interests? Why does she respond this way?

2. How does Lanval meet the love of his life?

3. What leads the princess to tell the knight to get a potion from her aunt?

4. How do Milun and his son meet for the first time?

5. What happens as Le Fresne grows into womanhood?

6. What does the knight do with the potion before he begins the climb?

7. How does Meriaduc learn of the lady's love for another man? What does he do about this?

8. Describe the relationship between Bisclavret and his wife, prior to her learning about his becoming a werewolf?

9. What does Arthur do about his arrested knight?

10. What decree does the king send out? Why?

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