Review Questions for “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”



“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” Study Guide

Quiz Format:

• 20 MC Comprehension questions = 1 point each

• 10 History/Literary Device questions = 1 point each

• Essay question based on one of the themes (respond in a 3 paragraph essay) = 15 points

TOTAL = 45 points

Comprehension:

1. When does the Green Knight arrive at King Arthur’s court?

2. What is different about the knight that enters Arthur’s court?

3. What challenge does the Green Knight make to Arthur’s court?

4. Who originally accepts the Green Knight’s challenge? Who ends up accepting the challenge and how does he ask for this “honor” and task?

5. What does the Green Knight do after his head is chopped off?

6. What weapon does Gawain use against the Green Knight?

7. What promise did Sir Gawain and the Lord of the castle make?

8. How is Gawain tempted?

9. What is the Green Knight doing when Sir Gawain first arrives at the Green Chapel?

10. Why does the Green Knight stop the second blow?

11. How many swings does the Green Knight give? What were his reasons for the 3 attempts?

12. How does Gawain act when he considers his own actions?

History:

• About what year was the poem written?

• What is the legend of St. Winifred?

• What is feudalism?

Important Themes:

• Who are the 3 Gawain’s and what do they symbolize?

• Explain chivalry and courtly love.

• Honor code – find examples

• Humility – find examples

Literary Terms and Poetic Devices:

• Bob and wheel

• Alliteration

• Allegory

Super Chivalry

A lot of people have been talking about how chivalry is dead

Well they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Take us back to the day with the feudal system –

Hold up - what the hell is the feudal system?

We start with the serfs, all the knight’s next up

And the nobles are the ones that the king’s hooked up

It’s ill, for real; they worked out a deal

They watch all his land, and he pays them the bills

Although, I know, it might sound dope

It really isn’t fair, but the peasants had to cope

Now we see the knight, knights, try to do what’s right, right

They don’t only fight, fight, they must act polite – like

If that’s the kind of dude that you’re lookin’ fo’

Then know they once existed in the castle court

I said, it’s true that they really were some hell of a guys

I mean my, my, my, my they did it all for Christ

I mean, they don’t lie and they put up a fight

I mean, try to fight a knight and you won’t survive

Chorus

What is this? What’d I miss? Somebody please say what the eff this is?

Is chivalry gone? I’m asking you to think it through – ah… and tell me true ‘cause

If you want to live with chivalry

Then you shouldn’t act like a weenie

Can’t you feel that boom, badoom, boom, boom, cha-chivalry

Can’t you feel that boom, badoom, boom, boom, cha-chivalry

Boom, boom, boom chivalry

Can’t you feel that boom, badoom, boom, boom, cha-chivalry

Can’t you feel that boom, badoom, boom, boom, cha-chivalry

There still is something more that you should know though

That chivalry was the knight’s living code, so

Whether with his crew, or flyin’ solo

A knight had to be virtuous and moral

You might think him better with his armor on

But in the field or in the court he had to be strong

Everybody’s giving him some looks, when they’re giving him looks

They’re just judging him on his honor

Uh, excuse me, he’s a hell of a guy, largesse, prowess, and he fights for franchise

I mean, sigh, sickening eyes, how do we view him from the feminist side?

Chorus

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