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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. How does the king reward Bisclavret?
(a) With a title.
(b) With land and riches.
(c) With half of the kingdom.
(d) With a new wife.

2. This lord loves her, but how does she respond?
(a) She loves no one.
(b) She also loves him but is married.
(c) She explains about the girdle and the promise she has made.
(d) She does not love him.

3. Does Guigemar agree to do as the lord asks?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Not at first.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

4. Giugemar does what if he will let him have the lady?
(a) Serve Meriaduc for three years.
(b) Protect Mariaduc's castle.
(c) Return to his home.
(d) Anything Meriaduc requests.

5. Who are neighbors in this story?
(a) Two good kings.
(b) Two good knights.
(c) Two evil knights.
(d) Two evil knights.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Guigemar returns home, what happens?

2. What rumor does one wife spread about having twins?

3. When the woman calls her husband and confesses her crime, does he forgive her?

4. What would happen if Bisclavret could not find his clothes?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the story end?

2. How does the knight end up mortally wounded?

3. What happens when Bisclavret sees his wife and her new husband? What are the reactions of others to Bisclavret's behavior?

4. What happens when Guigemar goes hunting?

5. How does a knight's wife end up locked away?

6. What does the woman do so she may marry a knight from a nearby land?

7. How is Lanval's loyalty to King Arthur tested?

8. What does the lady intend to write for the four knights? What does the knight think she should call it?

9. What happens between the lovers at the end of the story?

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

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