Marie’s Lanval and Sir Launfal except

  1. All of the following are differences between Marie’s Lanval and Sir Launfal except: A.) The problems that Sir Launfal faces are much more practical and solvable than the ones faced by Marie’s Lanval. B.) Dame Tryamour of Sir Launfal is more eager to reincorporate Launfal into the courtly world than to have him to herself for erotic love, as the fairy mistress of Lanval wishes above all else. C.). Sir Launfal is less concerned than Lanval with class differences. D.) In Sir Launfal, Launfal never actually leaves the court, but keeps returning to play tournaments with it, as opposed to Marie’s Lanval where he renounces it permanently and rides off into fantasy land with the fairy queen. 2.) All of the following statements concerning Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are true except: A.) Gawain can never be said to give into the lady’s amorous advances. B.) Gawain fears having sex with the lady because then he will have to have sex with her husband, under the rules of their game of exchanges. C.) The Green Knight is described solely as a monstrous figure. D.) All of the above are false. 3.) All of the following statements concerning The Franklin’s Tale are true except: A.) By the end, the narrator (the Franklin) suggests that the magician was the most generous of all the characters involved because he had the greatest claim to what was owed to him. B.) Dorigen remains a powerful woman because even though she must submit to Arverigus and Aurelius it is because of her own fidelity to her promise, not some arbitrary agreement between men, as in wife-swapping. C.) Parts of the poem are described as happening during the season of Christmas because it symbolizes the change from Old Testament adherence to the letter of the law to New Testament ideas of grace, mercy, and forgiveness. D.) All of the above are true. 4.) All of the following statements concerning The Wife of Bath’s Tale are true except: A.) The choice that the hag gives to the knight after the bedside sermon allows the knight to make an easier decision than the parallel choice presented in the source text for the tale. B.) Both the hag and the knight undergo a series of transformations at the tale’s end. C.) The point of having so many women state all the different things that women desire is to show the knight that women do in fact have desires of their own in the first place and are not the instruments of men. E.) All of the above are true. 5.) All of the following statements concerning Tristan are true except: A.) Courtliness in Tristan is defined not by how well one succeeds with habits of the court, but by how well one succeeds with habits of education or self-improvement. B.) It could be argued that Tristan and Isolde fall in love through a long process of which the love potion is only a metaphor. C.) The tragedy of Mark could be said to be that he doesn’t want to know what he wants to know. D.) All of the above are true. 6.) All of the following statements concerning the Morte Darthur are true except: A.) Gawain is forced to choose between the love he feels for his fellowship of knights and the love he feels for his family. B.) The Morte Darthur is an example of historicizing romance. C.) Arthur’s love for Guinevere transcends the duty he feels toward his knights of the round table. D.) Though Guinevere sees her mistakes clearly, Lancelot never does quite figure out that and how he has done wrong. 7.) Parataxis is most often used in the Morte Darthur to: A.) Make it impossible to tell who is responsible for something happening. B.) Symbolize Lancelot’s forbidden love for Guinevere. C.) Create prose that rhymes. D.) Show how past events foreshadow future ones. 8.) All of the following works were originally written in Middle English except: A.) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B.) The Canterbury Tales C.) Morte Darthur D.) All were originally written in English. 9.) Middle English romances are less concerned with courtly love and more concerned with practical matters than the French romances of Chretien and Marie. A. True B. False 10.) All of the following statements about Middle English romances in general are true except: A.) They are a relatively late phenomenon in medieval England (14th and 15th centuries). B.) They are products of the courtly world. C.) They usually reinforce the value systems of the gentry, the principal audience of the romances. D.) They present problems that can be solved, usually by money. 11.) Sir Launfal suggests that the ideal of knighthood might be a fiction of the past that is currently in decline. A. True B. False 12.) Read the following passage from The Knight’s Tale and then select the answer(s) that best describes its significance: Then hold it wise, for so it seems to me, To make a virtue of necessity, Take in good part what we may not eschew, Especially whatever things are due. A.) This passage suggests that divine perspective on the world is different from our own perspective. B.) This passage suggests the underlying futility of the pagan world of The Knight’s Tale. C.) This passage suggests that Theseus’s audience should make the best of bad situations even if it seems impossible. D.) Both B and C. 13.) All of the following statements on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are true except: A.) The bedroom scene and test demonstrates the lady’s quick ability to sexualize a scene and place herself in charge of it. B.) In the bedroom scene and test, Gawain demonstrates his active role in a male-centered, martial world. C.) The bedroom scene/test sets up a scene of reversed expectations, a battle of the sexes, and a battle of language between Gawain and the lady. D.) All are true.