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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who invented the word "Mabinogion"?
(a) Nobody - it is part of the Welsh language
(b) Lady Charlotte Guest
(c) King Arthur
(d) Chretién de Troyes

2. Which of the following people does not come to ask Manawydan to release the mouse?
(a) A priest
(b) A clerk
(c) A monk
(d) A bishop

3. What is the name of Rhiannon's father?
(a) Hereward the Wake
(b) Arawn King of Arawn
(c) Hefeydd the Old
(d) Gwawl son of Clud

4. Which of the following places are not seen by Macsen's messengers in the Island of Britain?
(a) Lloegyr
(b) Aber Seint
(c) Mon
(d) Arfon

5. What is the name of Pryderi's wife?
(a) Cigfa
(b) Gwyn
(c) Tywi
(d) Casnar

6. What title do the messengers greet the maiden with?
(a) Empress of Britain
(b) Empress of Rome
(c) Queen of Rome
(d) Queen of Britain

7. What was the name of the French troubador who originally wrote the earliest version of three of these tales?
(a) Lady Charlotte Guest
(b) Chretién de Troyes
(c) Gereint
(d) Marie de France

8. How long was Llasar Llaes Gyfnewid's wife pregnant for?
(a) Six weeks
(b) A fortnight
(c) Six months
(d) A month

9. Which of the following was not originally a medieval courtly romance?
(a) The Lady of the Fountain
(b) Peredur son of Efrawg
(c) Gereint Son of Erbin
(d) Branwen Daughter of Llyr

10. What color were the strange hounds seen by Pwyll?
(a) Red with white ears
(b) Red, black and white
(c) White with red ears
(d) White with black ears

11. Which sub-division of the tales are considered to be the most recently written?
(a) The Four Branches of the Mabinogi
(b) The Three Romances
(c) The Tales of King Arthur
(d) The Four Independent Native Tales

12. In total, how many years do the survivors spend in feasting before they bury the head?
(a) Eighty-seven
(b) Forty-seven
(c) Seven
(d) Eighty

13. What sort of tree does Lleu Llaw Gyffes perch in when in his eagle form?
(a) A birch
(b) A beech
(c) An ash
(d) An oak

14. Where did Manawydan go to offer homage to Caswallawn?
(a) Dyfed
(b) The White Mount in London
(c) Arberth
(d) Oxford

15. Which of the tales should correctly be called "The Mabinogion"?
(a) Only "The Dream of Rhonabwy"
(b) All of them
(c) The last three
(d) The first four

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following phenomena did not signal the disappearance of the people and domestic animals of Dyfed?

2. How many tales are versions of French romances?

3. How many messengers set out on the journey indicated by Macsen's dream?

4. How old was Gwri when he learned to walk?

5. What is unusual about the boar pursued by Pryderi's hunting hounds?

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