What just happened?
The holiday King Arthur and his knights are celebrating when the Green Knight arrives at Camelot?
What is New Year's Eve.
Shows the most courage from the beginning to the end of the story?
Who is Sir Gawain?
The name of the place where Gawain is supposed to meet the Green Knight?
What is the Green Chapel
The significance of the knight being green.
What is a supernatural element?
The amount of times the Green Knight swings the axe at Gawain.
What is three?
The unusual challenge the Green Knight offers the knights of Camelot?
What is someone may strike him once with his own weapon, but must accept the same blow from him one year and one day later.
Gives Gawain the green girdle?
Who is Lady Bertilak
The weapon the Green Knight carries into the hall.
What is an axe?
Gawain wears this around his waist when he arrives at the Green Chapel.
What is a green girdle?
Lady Bertilak initially claims the girdle will protect Gawain from this.
What is harm/death?
The three gifts, along with their day, Gawain receives from Lady Bertilak.
Day 1: Kiss
Day 2: Kisses
Day 3: Girdle
Tests Gawain's manners.
Who is Lady Bertilak?
The Green Knight challenges the people of Arthur's court to prove this virtue.
What is courage/bravery?
The green girdle's ultimate symbol of Gawain.
What is fear?
A knight demonstrates this by keeping his promises.
What is honor?
The Green Knight reveals his name to be this at the end of the story.
What is Bertilak?
The only person who knows all the connections between characters.
Who is the Green Knight?
The knights at the Round Table do this after the Green Knight leaves.
The meaning of the round table?
What is nobody in a higher rank than another?
Gawain claims to be a better choice than Arthur to face the Green Knight because of this.
What is he is less important?
Put these events in the correct order:
A. Gawain receives the green girdle.
B. The Green Knight challenges Arthur's court.
C. Gawain arrives at Bertilak's castle.
D. Gawain strikes the Green Knight.
E. Gawain travels to the Green Chapel.
F. Bertilak reveals his identity.
What is
B → D → C → A → E → F
Gawain's uncle.
Who is King Arthur?
Gawain initially mistakes the Green Chapel for this when he first sees it.
What is a cave?
Gawain's first representation of not being an ideal Knight.
What is the secret of the girdle?
At the end of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, what single word best describes the flaw Gawain realizes he cannot completely overcome, despite representing himself through the five virtues of the pentangle?
Fear