The Knights: Palamon and Arcita

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What characteristic is a knight showing when they prize religion, glory and honour women?

Battles Creon on behalf of the mourning women

Theseus behaves in a chivalrous way when he ...

Makes them vow never to fight against him

Theseus saves Palamon and Arcita's lives and then ...

Money that is given to pay for better food and luxuries in prison

Money that is paid to a prisoner's family

Because Theseus will not accept a ransom and is keeping them in prison

Why are Palamon and Arcita in 'anguish and distress'?

Five pairs of syllables in a line of poetry is known as ...

When a line of iambic pentameter rhymes with the next line of iambic pentameter, it is known as ...

He boasts of how good a storyteller he is.

He loses a competition to see who goes first

The Knight tells his tale first because ...

Roman Gods, Greek Gods and mythical creatures

The chivalric code prizes which three things above all else?

He refused to return the mourning women's husband's bodies after the battle

He would not fight Theseus in open battle

King Creon was not following the Chivalric code because ...

He immediately does as the mourning women ask, and fights Creon in open battle

He marries Hippolyta after capturing her in battle

He prizes victory in battle above all else

Duke Theseus behaves in a chivalric way when because ...