-The Nonexistent Knight Comprehension Quiz-
Please mark all final answers on the Scantron form provided.
1) The Nonexistent Knight begins in:
A)Germany
B)France
C)Denmark
D)England
E)Holland
2) The story takes place during the reign of:
A) Agilulf
B) Raimbaut
C)Torrismund
D)Charlemagne
E) Bradamante
3) True (A)False (B)The story begins with the reviewing of troops by a leader.
4) Agilulf’s Armor is:
A)White
B)Gray
C)Silver
D)Red
E)Periwinkle
5) The sprightly youth who seeks revenge for his father’s death and would like to practice some
fencing with the nonexistent knight is:
A) Agilulf
B)Raimbaut
C)Torrismund
D)Charlemagne
E)Bradamante
6) True (A)False (B) The character from question 5 succeeds in killing his father’s murderer, Argalif Isohar.
7) Which of the following characters becomes the squire of Agilulf?
A) Gurduloo
B) Omoboo
C) Martinzoo
D) Ben-Va-Ussuf
E) All of the above
8) True (A) False (B)This squire often believes that he is the objects with which he comes into contact,
existing but not realizing he exists.
9) Raimbaut falls in love with:
A) Agilulf
B)Raimbaut
C)Torrismund
D)Charlemagne
E)Bradamante
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10) At the beginning of Chapter 5, almost halfway through the book, we find out that the nonexistent knight is written
using the following narrative perspective:
A)First Person
B)Second Person
C)Third Person Omniscient
D)Third Person Limited Omniscient
E)Dramatic Point of View
11) True (A)False (B) In agreeing to mentor Raimbaut in becoming an officer among the Paladins, Agilulf has
Raimbaut help to clean latrines.
12) True (A)False (B)This story is told by a Priest.
13) True (A)False (B)Bradamante is the lowliest of knights, praising all that is coarse, crude and
undisciplined.
14) The following character is, in the beginning of the novel, in love with Agilulf:
A)Torrismund
B)Sophronia
C)Sister Theodora
D)Bradamante
E)Both C and D
15) True (A)False (B)Torrismund is cynical about knighthood and war.
16) True (A)False (B) The character telling the story is telling it as a form of penance (i.e., paying for sins).
17) True (A)False (B)Agilulf loves the taste of the food and drink that he is served at the banquets for the
knights.
18)Who challenges Agilulf’s knighthood?
A)Torrismund
B)Sophronia
C)Sister Theodora
D)Bradamante
E)Both C and D
19) True (A) False (B)The other knights and Charlemagne like Agilulf.
20-24) Match the correct the sojourner (one taking the journey) to the correct destination:
20) Agilulf _____A) In search of the nonexistent knight, whom (s)he loves
21) Torrismund_____B) In search of a non-existent father, one of the knights of the Holy Grail
22) Raimbaut_____C) In search of Bradamante
23) Bradamante_____D) Following a master
24) Gurduloo_____E) In search of a virgin
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25) Agilulf agrees to go help a damsel in distress who is held hostage at a castle by vicious:
A)hyenas
B)apes
C)dragons
D)bears
E)koalas
26) This damsel, who attempts to seduce Agilulf, is named:
A)Bradamante
B)Priscilla
C)Sophronia
D)Azira
E)Palmyra
27) True (A)False (B) Gurduloo enjoys a night of hot love in the damsel’s castle.
28) So far, this story seems to be a(n):
A)parody
B)epic poem
C)didactic piece
D)allegory
E)extended metaphor
29) True (A) False (B)Gurduloo is saved at sea by a turtle before being taken in by Moorish seamen with
whom he begins to work as an oyster fisherman.
30) True (A)False (B)After they are separated at sea, Agilulf and Gurduloo meet again on the coast of Italy.
31) Who does Agilulf remove from a Moroccan Sultan’s harem?
A)Sophronia
B)Azira
C)Palmyra
D)Bradamante
E)A-C
32) True (A)False (B)Torrismund, in the end, is quite proud of the Knights of the Holy Grail, i.e., the
exemplary way that they live their lives.
33)Torrismund at first believes that he made love to:
A)His Aunt
B)His Sister
C)His Grandmother
D)His Mother
E)A Woman of no relation to him
34) Torrismund soon finds out that the woman he slept with is actually:
A)His Aunt
B)His Sister
C)His Grandmother
D)His Mother
E)A Woman of no relation to him
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35)Agilulf, who flees from our sight in dishonor, bequeaths his armor to:
A) Gurduloo
B)Raimbaut
C)Torrismund
D)Charlemagne
E)Bradamante
36)Bradamante makes love to:
A) Agilulf
B)Raimbaut
C)Torrismund
D)Charlemagne
E)Bradamante
37) True (A)False (B)Gurduloo, after being abandoned by Agilulf, becomes the squire of:
A) Argalif Isohar
B)Raimbaut
C)Torrismund
D)Charlemagne
E)Bradamante
38) True (A)False (B)When Torrismund returns to Koowalden, the villagers accept him as their leader.
39) True (A)False (B) At the end of the story, Agilulf returns to marry Bradamante.
40)The narrator of the story has been who all along?
A)Pricilla
B)Sister Thodora
C)Sophronia
D)Bradamante
E)B and D