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As he lay dying, Arthur was taken by three queens (or nine maidens, depending on the version you read) to the fabled Isle of _____________________.

Avalon

—He is the son of Uther.

Besides pulling the sword from the stone, what else makes Arthur the rightful heir to the crown?

embarrassment

Bisclavret at first refuses to put on his clothes out of In Canto V, Minos's job is to _______________ the souls.

What happens when the knight takes Bisclavret's clothes?

Bisclavret remains a werewolf.

In the building of civilization, first came the discipline of battle -- the code of the warrior -- demanding courage, skill, loyalty, and self control. But progress required something more. The word for it came from the French word for horseman. It was called _______________________.

Chivalry

consonance

"And there the surly-village churls"

metaphor

"Long fields of barley and of rye,/That clothe the wold and meet the sky"

assonance

"On either side the river lie"

metaphor

"There she weaves by night and day/A magic web with colours gay"

alliteration

"Willows whiten"

remembering the happiness

According to Francesca, what causes a formerly happy person to be doubly unhappy?

Pulled the sword from the stone

Arthur proved that he was "rightwise born, king of all England" when he ___________________________.

Ector

Arthur's "foster father"

Uther Pendragon

Arthur's birth father

Camelot

Arthur's home and castle was known as ___________.

Holy Grail

Arthur's knights were on a quest to find the ________________________, which was, according to Christian belief, the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper and which caught His blood when he was on the cross.

sentence

In Canto V, Minos's job is to _______________ the souls.

tales about heros

In Norse mythology, sagas are

—hoard treasure

In myths, dragons usually

Courtly love

In the middle ages, marriages were arranged, and romantic love was found outside the marriage vows. And so the relationship between knights and women gave us that medieval variation on morals, manners and social graces known as _________ __________

T H White

Inspired Disney's The Sword in the Stone

What twentieth-century American novelist learned to love reading thanks to the legends of King Arthur and then wrote about the experience?

John Steinbeck

—magic of literature lives in the struggle between good and evil

John Steinbeck uses the legend of King Arthur to express the idea that

was Arthur's "foster brother."

Kay

The Lady of the Lake may be based in part on a Celtic goddess named Covianna, the spirit of the wishing well, also known as ______________________.

Lady Luck

Lancelot's surname, "du Lac," is appropriate because he was fostered by _______________________________.

Lady of the Lake

Why does Lancelot sleep with Elaine?

Lancelot thinks she is Guinevere.

Arthur's evil son, eventually destroyed Arthur and the dream of Camelot

Mordred

Which of the following characters is not the protagonist of a medieval sword legend?

Mordred

Morganna

Morgan Le Fay first appeared in Arthurian legend as a healer named ______________________, one of the nine Holy Women of Avalon.

The nine "ladies of the lake" or "Holy Women of Avalon" closely resemble the nine ____________ from Greek mythology.

Muses

The Lady of the Lake goes by many names, most commonly Vivian or ________________________.

Nimue

Merlin was based in part on the Norse god, _________________.

Odin

One of the most famous and mysterious monuments in the world, _________________, is located on Salisbury Plain on the site where over 460 British nobles were massacred by Anglo- Saxon invaders.

Stonehenge

Romances

Tales of knights, chivalry and adventure are called medieval ______________________.

Anglo-Saxon

The "real" King Arthur is remembered in history for gathering forces and defeating the _____________ invaders.

Wales

The Britons retreated from most of their lands and remained only in a small corner of their formerly large territory, that area known today as ____________________.

Le Morte D'Arthur means __________________________.

The Death of Arthur

Excalibur

The Lady of the Lake provided Arthur with his prized sword, called _______________________.

410

The Roman Empire fell around ___________ AD.

Siege perilous

The S__________ P___________ was the seat at the Round Table reserved for the perfect and purest knight.

Eve

The apple symbolically appears in many stories across cultures. The poisoned apple motif, perhaps best known because of the fairy tale of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," is an allusion to the dangerous apple offered to ____________.

Glastonbury Abbey

The grave of the "real" King Arthur is supposedly located at __________________________.

stories about a sixth-century warlord

The legend of Arthur probably evolved from

werewolf

The nobleman leaves his wife for three days each week because he becomes a(n) _________________.

betrayed their masters

The souls in the lowest circle of Hell are those people who have

reputation for goodness

The wise man saves Bisclavret from the king's men by reminding them of Bisclavret's

What do Bors, Percival and Galahad have in common?

They were free of sin and earned the holy grail

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Turned the historical Arthur into a legendary figure

joust

Two knights in armor face each other in a ________________. A lance is the weapon used. Believe it or not, this is the official sport of Maryland.

The Once and Future King

Two stories inspired by the novel ____________________________ include Disney's The Sword in the Stone and Lerner and Loewe's Broadway musical, Camelot.

His choice to trust the Angles and Saxons led to the destruction of the Britons.

Vortigern

JFK

What American president is associated with King Arthur?

literature about sin can inspire sin.

When Francesca describes how she and Paolo fell in love, she suggests that

German

Which of the following is NOT a Romance language?

The original keeper of the Holy Grail

Who was Joseph of Arimathea?

Kay has forgotten his sword at the inn

Why does Arthur pull the sword out of the stone?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wrote "The Lady of Shalott" Went to prison

Lerner and Loewe

Wrote Camelot

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Wrote Historia Britannum (The History of the Kings of Britain)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wrote Idylls of the King

Sir Thomas Malory

Wrote Le Morte D'Arthur

T H White

Wrote The Once and Future King

Scotti

___________________ is a Roman term for "bandit" or "pirate."

The Holy Grail

___________________ is often used as a metaphor for anything we are seeking.

Vortigern

__________________________ was the leader of the Britons at the time of the downfall of his people.

Merlin

a magician, trained Arthur as a child

"In among the bearded barley"

alliteration

"From the river winding clearly./Down to towered Camelot"

allusion

"often through the silent nights"

assonance

The souls in the Second Circle of Hell spend eternity being

battered by wind

Arthur

created the Round Table and the dream of a noble community called Camelot

Isault

drank a love potion and fell in love with her husband's nephew

Tristram

fell in love with his uncle's bride after unwittingly drinking a love potion

"His broad clear brow in sunlight glowed"

hyperbole

Guinevere

married Arthur but fell in love with Lancelot

"Some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross. I will not say that it shall be so, but many men say that there is written upon his tomb this verse: 'Here lies Arthur, the ____________ ______________________________.'"

once and future

The sword is primarily a masculine symbol of __________________, liberty and strength.

power

The Welsh people are still associated with the ________________.

red dragon

Bedivere

returned Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake when Arthur died

Tales of knights, chivalry and adventure are called medieval ________________________.

romances

At the beginning of the poem, the young nobleman is all of the following EXCEPT

savage

"The helmet and the helmet-feather/Burned like one burning flame together"

simile

Knights hold competitions of strength and skill at a ______________________________.

tournament

Lancelot

was Arthur's best friend and best knight of the Round Table

Morgan La Fey

was Arthur's half-sister and mother to Mordred. She is often shown as a sorceress and is sometimes known as Morgawse

Elaine

was referred to by Tennyson as "the Lady of Shalott"

King Pelles

was the father of another Elaine, grandfather of Galahad, and called "the Fisher King"

Igraine

was the mother of Arthur. Her first husband was the Duke of Cornwall.

Galahad

was the purest knight, son of Lancelot and Elaine

All of the following statements about legends are true except that—

written by hand and passed along in secret stories

Mark Twain

wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Weaving

Elaine was ________________ a tapestry in her tower.

Nennius

First writer to mention the historical Arthur

Lancelot du Lac was from the country of _____________.

France

Why does Merlin agree to help Uther sleep with Igraine, another man's wife?

He knew that a child would be conceived and wanted the child.