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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. The Moorish king of ______ decides to attack the Cid and his armies in Sections 88 and 89.

2. How many Moors escape the Cid's army in the second battle in Section 95?

3. What is the name of the Cid's horse in Section 86?

4. Where does Fernando hide in Section 112?

5. Who issues the challenge?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Cid's decision regarding the marriage of his daughters? What does this reveal about him?

2. What happens to the Cid's daughters when the king's sons take them to the forest of the Corpes?

3. What is ultimately decided about the marriage of the Cid's daughters? How is Minaya involved in the decision?

4. Why does the Cid want to wait to go to the meeting? How does he spend this delayed time?

5. What gift does the Cid give the king in Section 107? Why?

6. What does the Cid's message to King Alphonso in Section 133 say?

7. What conditions does King Alphonso puts on the attendance of the judicial meeting set up in Toledo?

8. What characteristic of an epic poem is evident in Sections 84-102?

9. How do the Cid and Minaya react after the battle in regards to the king's sons? How do the sons react?

10. How does the Cid feel about the marriages of his daughters? How does he express this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What evidence was present in the poem that the marriage between the king's sons and the Cid's daughters would not go well?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the role geography plays in the story of "The Poem of the Cid."

Essay Topic 3

Explain the relationship between the Cid and King Alphonso.

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