SparkNotes: The Once and Future King: Quiz

1. What is King Arthur’s nickname as a child?

(A) Cully

(B) The Wart

(C) The Nose

(D) Kay

2. Who are Queen Morgause’s children?

(A) Gawaine, Gareth, Mordred, and Guenever

(B) Agravaine, Gawaine, Gaheris, and Uther

(C) Agravaine, Gawaine, Gaheris, Gareth, and Mordred

(D) Gawaine, Gaheris, Lamorak, Mordred, and Lot

3. Where does King Arthur’s final battle against King Lot take place?

(A) Camelot

(B) The Out Isles

(C) Orkney

(D) Bedegraine

4. At the end of Book II, what does the narrator say is the cause of Arthur’s tragedy?

(A) He tried to murder his son, Mordred

(B) He killed an unarmed man

(C) He slept with his half-sister Morgause

(D) He committed adultery

5. Why did Sir Ector and not Arthur’s birth father, Uther Pendragon, raise Arthur?

(A) Arthur was conceived out of wedlock

(B) Uther was too busy fighting the Gaels

(C) Uther didn’t know that Arthur had been born

(D) Sir Ector kidnapped Arthur

6. Who is Mordred’s closest ally?

(A) Gaheris

(B) Agravaine

(C) Arthur

(D) Gawaine

7. How does Gawaine die?

(A) He dies fighting his brother Gareth

(B) He dies of old age

(C) He dies fighting Mordred’s forces in England

(D) He dies fighting Lancelot in France

8. Why does the Wart pull the sword out of the stone?

(A) He wants to be king of England

(B) He has left his own sword at the inn

(C) Merlyn tells him to pull the sword

(D) Kay has forgotten his sword at the inn

9. What is Lancelot’s son named?

(A) Gaheris

(B) Lionel

(C) Ban

(D) Galahad

10. Why doesn’t Lancelot find the Holy Grail?

(A) He is wounded in battle

(B) He is a sinner

(C) Galahad gets to it first

(D) He cannot find the Holy Grail

11. On what text is The Once and Future King based?

(A) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

(B) Malory’s Morte d’Arthur

(C) Descartes’s Discours de la Methode

(D) Montaigne’s Essais

12. Why do Arthur and Gawaine lay siege to Lancelot’s castle in France?

(A) Because Lancelot is having an affair with Guenever

(B) Because Arthur wants to expand his kingdom

(C) Because Lancelot has kidnapped Guenever

(D) Because they think that Lancelot has killed Gareth and Gaheris

13. Why does Lancelot sleep with Elaine?

(A) Lancelot thinks she is Guenever

(B) Elaine promises not to tell anyone

(C) Lancelot wants to have a son

(D) Lancelot is under a spell

14. What is the name of Merlyn’s owl?

(A) Degalis

(B) Archie

(C) Archimedes

(D) Troy

15. While living with Elaine, Lancelot disguises himself and goes by which of the following names?

(A) Le Chevalier Noir

(B) Le Chevalier Mal Fet

(C) Sir Galahad

(D) The Wild Man

16. Why does Agravaine kill his mother, Morgause?

(A) She has disowned him

(B) She whipped him as a child

(C) She is having an affair with Sir Aglovale

(D) She is having an affair with Sir Lamorak

17. Which animal does Merlyn turn the Wart into first?

(A) A badger

(B) A perch

(C) A hawk

(D) An ant

18. What is the name of the hawk that the Wart follows in the woods?

(A) Sir Ector

(B) Hob

(C) Cully

(D) Kay

19. Why do Sir Palomides and Sir Grummore disguise themselves as the Questing Beast?

(A) To cheer up King Pellinore

(B) To frighten Queen Morgause

(C) To entertain themselves

(D) To seduce the real Questing Beast

20. What is the one thing that Merlyn forgets to warn Arthur about in time?

(A) That Mordred will betray him

(B) That Lancelot will have an affair with Guenever

(C) That Lancelot will betray him

(D) That Arthur is Morgause’s half-brother

21. Why does Lancelot battle Sir Turquine?

(A) Because Sir Turquine wants revenge for his brother’s death

(B) Because Sir Turquine is defending the Holy Grail

(C) To rescue his cousin, Sir Lionel

(D) To rescue Agravaine

22. Who is the only person to defeat Lancelot in single combat?

(A) Arthur

(B) Galahad

(C) Gawaine

(D) Tristram

23. What are King Arthur’s allies in France named?

(A) Bors and Kay

(B) Gawaine and Gaheris

(C) Ban and Bors

(D) Pierre and François

24. Why is Arthur’s table round?

(A) To prevent jealousy and competition among the knights

(B) To allow every knight a good view of King Arthur, who sits in the middle

(C) To use timber, a limited resource in Camelot, more efficiently

(D) To symbolize the unity of King Arthur’s kingdom

25. Who is King Arthur’s real father?

(A) King Pellinore

(B) Sir Ector

(C) Uther Pendragon

(D) Merlyn