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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does the lover listen to the princess's advice?

2. In honor of the marriage, what does Le Fresne do?

3. Near a high mountain is what city?

4. Why does the woman say Lanval will no longer want for money?

5. What does Equitan say about the woman's husband?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Eliduc? What has happened to him?

3. How does the woman learn that Le Fresne is her lost daughter?

4. What happens when the knight and the princess reach the top of the mountain?

5. How does Lanval end up arrested?

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

7. Why does Guilliadun's body end up in a chapel?

8. What does Tristram compose? Why does he do this?

9. What happens when Milun returns home after achieving fame as a knight?

10. How does the knight end up mortally wounded?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some stories involve a child that learns as an adult the truth of his parentage.

Part 1) Describe these stories. How do they learn about their parentage?

Part 2) How does this knowledge help them? At the time the stories were written, what would be the main purpose for knowing one's parentage?

Part 3) How is that reason the same or different today?

Essay Topic 2

Supernatural beings are found in several of these stories.

Part 1) What supernatural beings are found? Describe how they are used in each story.

Part 2) Why are supernatural beings used? What might they symbolize?

Part 3) Do these supernatural beings enhance the stories? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

When a person of higher status initiates a relationship with one of lower status, the results are disastrous.

Part 1) Describe two situations from this book such as this. Why are they disastrous?

Part 2) What does this reveal about one's social status at the time these stories were written?

Part 3) Is one's status important today? Why or why not?

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