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The Faerie Queene Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Faerie Queene? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who said: "Most goodly glee and louely blandishment/ She to me made, and bad me loue her deare… As she to me deliuered all that night/ And at her parting said, She Queene of Faeries hight"? (I.ix.14)


Arthur
Redcrosse
Una
Archimago
Q. Who said: "Vaine glorious Elfe (said he) doest not thou weet,/ That money can thy wantes at will supply?" (II.11.vii)


The Palmer
Guyon
Mammon
Phaedria
Q. Who said: "Nor man it is, nor other liuing wight;/ For then some hope I might vnto me draw,/ But th'only shade and semblant of a knight,/ Whose shape or person yet I neuer saw,/ Hath me subiected to loues cruell law" (III.ii.38)


Merlin
Glauce
Busirane
Britomart
Q. Who said: "Thou foolishe Elfe… Seest not, how badly all things present bee,/ And each estate quite out of order go'th?/ The sea it selfe doest thou not plainely see/ Encroch vppon the land there vnder thee?" (V.ii.37)


Arthegall
The Giant with Scales
Talus
The Blatant Beast
Q. Who said: "Now surely syre, I find,/ That all this worlds gay showes, which we admire,/ Be but vaine shadowes to this safe retyre/ Of life, which here in lowlinesse ye lead,/ Fearelesse of foes, or fortunes wrackfull yre" (VI.ix.27)


Pastorella
Meliboe
Calidore
The Brigands