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Choose one (or, if you choose, more than one) and, using examples from the text, support your answer.
Question 1. How are the Muslims (Saracens) depicted in Song of Roland?
Question 2. What are the characteristics of the ideal masculine hero as can be gathered from depictions of the epic's various characters? How does this ideal hero compare and contrast with other epic heroes ?
Question 3. In Laisse XCIV, Roland asserts that "We [the French] have the right, these gluttons [the Saracens] have the wrong!" What do you make of the moral absolutes that govern the poem (Christians right, pagans wrong. period)?
Question 4. Archbishop Turpin is the leading religious figure in the epic. What do you make of his brand of Christianity?
Question 5. (not in our textbook but an important event). Think about Ganelon's betrayal and treason. Why does he betray Charlemagne and his army? What impact does his betrayal have on the king, the army, the country? Is justice served at the end of the story?