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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does she feel about receiving the letter from the knight?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Delighted.
(c) Worried.
(d) Sad.

2. Their son has learned the story of his parents and has grown into what?
(a) A weak-minded tax collector.
(b) A fearless knight with a broad reputation.
(c) A reckless teenager.
(d) A kind man.

3. What does Tristram do to express the joy he felt at seeing his love again?
(a) He proposes to her.
(b) He composes a lai.
(c) He leaves the kingdom.
(d) He sends her poems.

4. What does the woman's lover do with what she has sent him?
(a) He makes a jeweled box to hold the body of the nightingale.
(b) He reads it every night to her out the window.
(c) He kisses her picture every day.
(d) He wears it for the rest of his life.

5. What happens after the lady tells her son the story of his birth and gives him the gift from his true father?
(a) She then faints away, dead.
(b) She is killed by her husband.
(c) She begs for forgiveness.
(d) She then runs away.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does the knight carry the gift his lover has sent him?

2. What does Isolde see as she rides on the path?

3. What has happened to three of the four knights?

4. Why does Tristram hide here?

5. When her husband asks why she goes to the window every night, what does she say?

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