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The Once and Future King
Study Guide Book 2
Directions: Please read the chapters and answer the questions that follow.
Chapter 1
- What mood does the setting create?
- Describe Gawaine?
- Describe Gareth.
- Describe Gaheris.
- Describe Agravaine.
- Summarize the feud between the Pendragons and the Orkneys.
- Describe Queen Morgause.
Chapter 2
- Summarize Arthur’s opinion of the battle?
- According to Merlyn, what is wrong with Arthur’s opinion?
- Describe Arthur’s opinion of being King.
Chapter 3
- Summarize the reasons for the Normans’ impending war with the Irish.
Chapter 4
- Summarize what Merlyn teaches Arthur about the reasons for war.
- Summarize what Merlyn teaches Arthur about the consequences of war.
Chapter 5
- What does St. Toirdealbhach’s story teach the boys about war?
- What does the boys’ treatment of the donkeys teach the reader about the boys?
Chapter 6
1.What does Arthur plan to do after the battle of Bedegraine?
Chapter 7
- Why do the boys want to hunt the unicorn?
- What are the most important characteristics of the unicorn?
- Describe the result of the gralloch.
- Describe the Queen’s reaction to the present she is given by her boys.
- What does the chapter teach you about good and evil?
- Make a prediction: what will boys who are raised like this become when they are adults?
Chapter 8
- Summarize the plans that Merlyn, Arthur, and Kay are making for the new order of knights.
- What is Kay’s idea about a justifiable reason for war?
- How does Merlyn react to this idea?
- What does Merlyn’s reaction teach you about the theme of the novel?
Chapter 9
- What do Sir Grummore and Sir Palomides make?
- Why do they create this?
- What do you learn about Gawaine?
- What kind of characterization is this?
- What is the result of Sir Grummore and Sir Palomides’ plan?
Chapter 10
- According to Merlyn, how will the battle go?
- What is the moral of the parable about the man in the market in Damascus?
- Why is Arthur known as the Once and Future King?
- Where will this miraculous event take place?
Chapter 11
- How do Sir Grummore and Sir Palomides escape the Questin’ Beast?
- What has happened to the Queen of Flanders’ daughter?
- Why won’t the Questin’ Beast leave the castle?
Chapter 12
- Summarize the battle plan of the Eleven Kings.
- Summarize King Arthur’s battle plan.
- How does the Battle of Bedegraine begin?
- What is Merlyn’s responsibility during the battle?
- What is Arthur’s “second atrocity”?
- How does Arthur fight in the battle?
- Please summarize the new plan that King Lot creates to defeat Arthur’s army.
- How does Arthur’s army react to this new strategy?
- Why couldn’t Lot’s army sleep well after the first day of battle?
- Summarize the conclusion of the battle.
Chapter 13
- What is Merlyn’s suggestion to Sir Grummore and Sir Palomides regarding the Questin’ Beast?
- Where is Queen Morgause going the next morning?
- Make an inference: how will the Queen use her magic?
Chapter 14
- What sin does Arthur commit at the end of the chapter?
- According to the narrator, what will be the consequence for Arthur’s sin?