Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 6

Study Guide Questions for Stanzas 57-67

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Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)

Temptation, Appearance vs. Reality, Trust

Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)

1. What kind of animal did the hunting party chase on their second hunt?

2. What did the lord do while his men “quailed” before the animal?

3. What did the lady claim that Gawain had “forgot altogether”?

4. What did the lady claim was “the chief thing to praise” in the code of chivalry?

5. What did the poet claim concerning Gawain’s “defence” against the lady’s advances?

6. What was the first thing Gawain did after the lady left him?

7. How was the dangerous animal finally slain by the hunting party?

8. What could the lord of the castle “hardly wait” to do?

9. What did Gawain exchange with the lord of the castle this time?

10. What made Gawain “ill-pleased at heart”?

11. What did Gawain ask “leave” to do at the end of the night and what happened instead?

Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)

1. Why does the Gawain poet keep going back and forth between what is happening with the hunt and what is happening with Sir Gawain and the Lady?

2. How is the lady trying to use Gawain’s commitment to the knight’s chivalry code to get what she wants from him?

3. Why was the lord of the castle so eager to show Gawain what he had killed during the hunt?

4. What does it mean when it says that Gawain “graciously engaged her, however against the grain the play”?

5. Why does Gawain seek to leave the castle a day earlier than originally planned?

6. Why did the lord of the castle say he found Gawain “trusty”? 

Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)

1. Should a Christian ever willingly go to a place where they will be tempted to sin? If so, what might be the situation which calls us to do so? If not, explain why it is never appropriate to do so.

Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)

1. Read Genesis 39. In light of this passage of Scripture what ought Gawain to do in his current situation?

2. Read 1 Corinthians 6:12-20. What are Christians to do concerning sexual immorality and why?