View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time of year is it when Enid laments that her husband is falling into a decline?
(a) Spring
(b) Winter
(c) Summer
(d) Fall/Autumn

2. What relation is Culhwch to Arthur?
(a) His nephew
(b) His great-nephew
(c) His second cousin
(d) His first cousin

3. What day of the week is it when the messenger brings news of the white stag?
(a) Tuesday
(b) Friday
(c) Sunday
(d) Thursday

4. Where does Llud bury the captured pigs?
(a) Caer Llion
(b) Cornwall
(c) The White Mount in London
(d) Dinas Emreis

5. What is the most common response of both Owein and Arthur when the messengers bring them news about the battle between the men and the ravens?
(a) Keep playing
(b) Play the game
(c) Play thy game
(d) Play on

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following tasks does Enid not perform when Gereint spends the night in her father's house?

2. Which of the following well-known Arthurian characters is not invoked by Culhwch when he asks his boon from Arthur?

3. Where do the pure black troop come from?

4. How many times has the knight Gereint followed won the sparrowhawk?

5. Where do Llud and Llefelys meet to discuss the plagues?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why and how does Luned rescue Owein?

2. Who teaches Peredur in the ways of knighthood?

3. Why does Gereint decide to marry Enid?

4. Why does Rhonabwy set out on a journey?

5. How does Enid travel to Arthur's court?

6. Why does Peredur's mother raise him in seclusion?

7. Why is Cei angry at the two dwarfs?

8. Why does the author of "The Dream of Rhonabwy" say that nobody can remember the tale without a book?

9. Why do Arthur's men stop him from attacking the Black Witch?

10. What convinces Gereint that Enid is loyal to him?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 683 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample