Exam 20: Arthurian Legend: the Holy Grail, Donna Lynne Rondolone

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In Gaiman's "Chivalry," the cashier's name is Marie; this French spelling of her name may connect her to __________________, who may be the grail vessel, according to the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail.

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Mary Magdalene

In Gaiman's "Chivalry," Mrs. Whitaker finds the Holy Grail under _________.

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a fur coat

At the beginning of Chrétien's The Story of the Grail, Perceval doesn't understand what the knights are because his mother has kept him ignorant of everything having to do with ___________.

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chivalry

Traditional story elements of the Grail legend do NOT include a

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The first author to identify the Grail with the vessel of the Last Supper was

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The form that the grail takes in Chrétien's The Story of the Grail is a

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In The Quest of the Holy Grail, Galahad's grandfather is initially identified as the Fisher King; in a later section, Galahad's grandfather is identified as King Pelles. This is an example of

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When she picks up the Philosopher's Stone, Mrs. Whitaker is impressed by the feeling of _________that overcomes her.

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Because Perceval's mother tried to keep him from fulfilling his birthright as a knight, she can be seen as a(n)

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The bleeding lance is identified as

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The Story of the Grail's repeated emphasis on the quaternity suggests Jung's idea of

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Perceval fails the initial Grail test because he

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The most recent scholarship suggests that the Grail evolved from __________ story elements.

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The Continuations of Chrétien's The Story of the Grail

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Perceval's encounter with the Loathly Damsel represents Campbell's

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In "Chivalry," the Philosopher's Stone, the fire, and the tree of the Hesperides are symbols associated with

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The Quest of the Holy Grail was most likely written by ___________.

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In The Quest of the Holy Grail, Galahad's healing the Maimed King can represent Campbell's ________ stage of the hero's journey.

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The first extant Grail story was written by ____________ in the last quarter of the ____ century CE.

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In The Quest of the Holy Grail, although Bors returns to King Arthur's court, he doesn't fulfill Campbell's Master of Two Worlds stage of the hero's journey because _________.

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