Gawain, sitting next to the queen, bowed to the king then: "i will keep my words plain. i ask for this battle to be mine." "if you , glorious lord," gawain said to the king, "i will turn from this table and stand by you there, if i may do that without discourtesy, and without displeasing my liege lady, i would come to your counsel before your great court, for i think it not proper, according to our customs, for such a request to be put so high in your hall that you feel moved to reply to it yourself when so many of the bravest are about you on the bench." –sir gawain and the green knight, w. s. merwin what makes gawain a chivalric hero in this passage? check all that apply. he is a member of court society. he fights in a battle. he acts out of loyalty. he faces a spiritual challenge. his values are questioned.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.