Please Answer these Questions on a sheet of paper.
1.
What is said to be more important than
preventing Gawaine from being killed by a dragon?
2.
What does the headmaster tell Gawaine about the
magic word?
3.
Why doesn’t Gawaine use the magic word against
the fiftieth dragon?
4.
What is the real power behind the word
“Rumplesnitz”?
5.
Explain what probably happens to Gawaine when he
encounters the 51st dragon? Why?
6.
If Gawaine had not found out about the
ineffectiveness of the ‘magic’ word, do you think that he would have been able
to keep on killing dragons? Why?
7.
Do you agree with the headmaster’s decision to
push the frightened Gawaine into that final Battle? Why?
8.
What is your interpretation of the theme of the
Fifty-first Dragon? ( If you are not
sure of what the theme of a story is,
you can read the definition and see an example on page 835.)
9.
What does the narrator seem to be saying about
the source of self-confidence? Do you agree?