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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator go to seek love immediately after visiting the well?
(a) The dining hall.
(b) The castle.
(c) The rose garden.
(d) The fountains.

2. What does the narrator sit down below after seeing the couples in the garden?
(a) Awning.
(b) Pine tree.
(c) Willow tree.
(d) Elm tree.

3. Who touches Bialacoil with a torch?
(a) Shame.
(b) Cupid.
(c) Wikked-Tunge.
(d) Venus.

4. What does Daungter represent?
(a) Danger.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Self-respect.

5. What is Vilanye representative of?
(a) Eagerness.
(b) Rudeness.
(c) Hypocrisy.
(d) Embarrassment.

6. Which of the following demonstrates the narrator's lamentations?
(a) Poetry about the castle.
(b) Poetry about anger.
(c) Poetry about love.
(d) Poetry about nature.

7. Which adjective best describes the couples in the garden?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Angry.
(c) Happy.
(d) Sad.

8. Where is the narrator chased to?
(a) Behind a fountain.
(b) Outside the hedges.
(c) Inside the castle.
(d) Inside the well.

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

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

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

12. Who invites the narrator to dance first?
(a) Wikked-Tunge.
(b) Courtesy.
(c) Bialacoil.
(d) Mirth.

13. Who does the narrator ask if he can pick the rose?
(a) Cupid.
(b) Daunger.
(c) Bialacoil.
(d) Courtesy.

14. Who begins to build a castle?
(a) Shame.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Bialacoil.
(d) The narrator.

15. One of the messages in The Romance of the Rose is that hope can do what to a lover?
(a) Lose.
(b) Beguile.
(c) Hurt.
(d) Seek.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bialacoil's welcoming nature personify?

2. What does Wikked-Tunge represent?

3. The narrator imagines the feeling of the kiss he requests as feeling like which of the following?

4. Who does the narrator discover has died at the well he sits near?

5. What reason is suggested for becoming a good knight?

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