Le Morte d’Arthur Quiz: The Departure and Sir Percivale, Version A
Quiz on “The Departure,” “The Miracles,” and “Sir Percivale,” Version A, with a word list, ten questions, and three bonus questions.
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Quiz – “The Departure,” “The Miracles,” and “Sir Percivale”
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Using the words in the list, indicate the word defined in italics in each item.
- abbess
- abbey
- adieu
- device
- evensong
- fiend
- heretic
- icon
- malady
- melee
- pagan
- penance
- recluse
- steward
- suzerain
1.Galahad rescues Percivale from a confused hand-to-hand fighting.
2.Galahad banishes a demonic spirit from a tomb.
3.Galahad’s identifying shield emblem is a cross.
4.Galahad encounters a hermit or holy woman after he jousts with Launcelot and Percivale.
5.The Grail appeared to the Round Table after a vesper service in a church performed at dusk.
6.According to Launcelot, what will happen to any unworthy knight who attempts to pull the sword from the red marble stone?
7.To whom did that sword last belong?
8.Why can Gawain NOT ride with Galahad on the Grail Quest?
9.What color is Galahad’s armor? [This is not as “picky” a question as you may think it is.]
10.Who, in fact, was the seductress who almost won Percivale’s soul?
BONUS:
A.Using the words listed at the top of the quiz, what term means “a lord owed allegiance”?
B.Identify Nacien by identifying his relationship to the white shield.
C.What did Merlin devise as a symbol of the wholeness of virtue?