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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.
