Book 1: Chapters 1-2

Question 1

knight who struck the Dolorous Stroke

Answer 1

Balyn

Question 2

brother of Balyn and the one Balyn loved most in the world

Answer 2

Balan

Question 3

cruel king of N. Wales

Answer 3

King Ryon

Question 4

the invisible knight

Answer 4

Garlon

Question 5

king of Castle Carbonek; victim of the Dolorous Stroke

Answer 5

King Pelles

Question 6

the cup Jesus drank from the Last Supper

Answer 6

Holy Grail

Question 7

place where Holy Grail resided; place of Dolorous Stroke

Answer 7

Castle Carbonek

Question 8

to pay off; to compensate for

Answer 8

redeem

Question 9

expressions of grief; mournings

Answer 9

lamentations

Question 10

sorrowful

Answer 10

plaintive

Question 11

“Bury us, I pray you, in the same tomb, and write upon it that here lie two brothers who slew one another by mischance …” Who said this? and to whom?

Answer 11

Balan to the Lady of Castle

Question 12

capital of Arthur’s kingdom; modern-day Winchester, England

Answer 12

Camelot

Question 13

king of Briton; father of Arthur

Answer 13

Uther Pendragon

Question 14

mother of Arthur; unfaithful wife of Gorlois

Answer 14

Igrayne

Question 15

Land of Mystery; place where Merlin took Arthur as an infant

Answer 15

Avalon

Question 16

Arthur’s sword with magical scabbard

Answer 16

Excalibur

Question 17

the name given to the land over which Arthur ruled

Answer 17

Logres (Lów-gris)

Question 18

killed knights for traveling on a road; nearly killed Arthur, and then began to chase the “Questing Beast”

Answer 18

King Pellinore

Question 19

a Celtic people inhabiting Britain before the time of the Roman invasion

Answer 19

Britons

Question 20

Germanic tribe that invaded Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries

Answer 20

Saxons

Question 21

ornate tent

Answer 21

pavilion

Question 22

awe; respect

Answer 22

reverence

Question 23

a ceremony by which a man acknowledged himself the vassal of a lord; special honor

Answer 23

homage

Question 24

“A little while after his birth at dark Tintagel, Uther, who hearkened to my words, gave the child into my care, and I bore him to Avalon, the Land of Mystery.” Who said this? and to whom?

Answer 24

Merlin to the angry kings and knights

Question 25

pavilion

Answer 25

ornate tent

Question 26

reverence

Answer 26

awe; respect

Question 27

redeem

Answer 27

to pay off; to compensate for

Question 28

lamentations

Answer 28

expressions of grief; mournings

Question 29

plaintive

Answer 29

sorrowful