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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main symbol of love in The Romance of the Rose?
(a) Water.
(b) Roses.
(c) Fountains.
(d) Women.

2. What does fairsemblaunce represent?
(a) Religion.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Hypocrisy.
(d) Charm.

3. Where is the narrator hit by Cupid's arrows?
(a) Leg.
(b) Head.
(c) Back.
(d) Heart.

4. Who does Shame protect the roses from?
(a) Daunger.
(b) Cupid.
(c) Wikked-Tunge.
(d) Venus.

5. Who does the garden the narrator finds belong to?
(a) Cupid.
(b) Vilayn.
(c) Mirth.
(d) Bialacoil.

6. What is distinct about Wikked-Tungue's appearance?
(a) His tongue is square.
(b) His ears are nonexistent.
(c) His head is a triangle.
(d) His eyes are squares.

7. Who does Jealousy want to lock away?
(a) Bialacoil.
(b) Lechery.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Venus.

8. The people in the court are representative of which of the following?
(a) Characteristics desirable in oneself.
(b) Characteristics undesirable in a lover.
(c) Characteristics one may perceive everybody else to have.
(d) Characteristics desirable in a lover.

9. Who or what does Daungter protect?
(a) Wikked-Tunge.
(b) The castle.
(c) The rose.
(d) Venus.

10. What is Daunger most associated with?
(a) Financial success.
(b) Social status.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Abstinence.

11. Who is Reason's daughter?
(a) Shame.
(b) Cupid.
(c) Trespass.
(d) Pain.

12. Who are Venus's children?
(a) Shame and Chastity.
(b) Cupid and Chastity.
(c) Chastity, Charity, and Courtesy.
(d) Cupid and Shame.

13. Who is described as an old hag?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Bialacoil.
(c) Courtesy.
(d) Vekke.

14. The narrator imagines the feeling of the kiss he requests as feeling like which of the following?
(a) Bliss.
(b) Embarrassing.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Shameful.

15. Why does the style of The Romance of the Rose change so much after a certain point?
(a) The text gets a new author.
(b) The story is divided into a beginning and an ending.
(c) The narrator's feelings change quickly.
(d) The narrator wakes up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kills Echo?

2. Who appears to be the reverse of villainy?

3. What does Daungter represent?

4. The narrator follows the river to which location?

5. The narrator is told that he must wait for which of the following before picking the rose?

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