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Q. What does Roland say when Blancandrin tells Charlemagne that King Marsile wants to convert to Christianity?
"Believe Marsile and you shall rue the day!"
"You're a living devil!"
"You speak the truth, I'm sure"
"Bring. It. On."
Q. Why is Oliver angry when Roland decides to blow the oliphant?
because Charlemagne is deaf and won't hear it
because it would be pointless to blow the oliphant at any time
because Roland wouldn't do it before and now it's too late
because Oliver wants to blow it
Q. Who promises Roland's men that if they die martyrs they will go straight to paradise?
Samson
Archbishop Turpin
Charlemagne
Marsile's nephew
Q. Who says, "He sounds his horn all day long for a mere hare. He's showing off now before his peers" (134.1781-2)?
Gandalf
Ganelon
Blancandrin
Bramimonde
Q. Alda says, "This offer seems strange to me./May it not please God, his angels and his saints/That I remain alive after Roland!" (268.3717-19) in response to Charlemagne's suggestion that she:
join a convent
marry him and become empress
become a knight to replace Roland
marry his son instead of Roland