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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Sikernesse be interpreted as?
(a) Fake sickness.
(b) Shame.
(c) Mental illness.
(d) Healing.

2. Who takes the crown of flowers to Bialacoil?
(a) Wikked-Tunge.
(b) Vekke.
(c) Venus.
(d) The narrator.

3. What weapon does Fals-Semblance have hidden?
(a) A sword.
(b) A mace.
(c) A knife.
(d) A cannon.

4. What does Cupid vow to do?
(a) Help the narrator find Bialacoil.
(b) Pick the rose for the narrator.
(c) Take the castle.
(d) Help the narrator fall in love with somebody who will love him.

5. Who does Cupid scold for retreating?
(a) Richesse.
(b) Venus.
(c) Reason.
(d) The narrator.

6. Who does Wel-Helinge attack?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Shame.
(c) Hardinesse.
(d) Sikernesse.

7. What tone does De Lorris use in describing Cupid's oath?
(a) Cynical.
(b) Adventurous.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Optimistic.

8. What happens to the translation as Fals-Semblance and Abstinence negotiate?
(a) The translation becomes more intense.
(b) The translation seems more difficult.
(c) The translation seems more florid.
(d) The translation breaks off.

9. What character represents repentance?
(a) Courtesy.
(b) Youth.
(c) Age.
(d) Mirth.

10. Reason says that what number is the best for friendship?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

11. Who are Fals-Semblance's parents?
(a) Abstinence and Ipocrisy.
(b) Ipocrisy and Chastity.
(c) Gyle and Chastity.
(d) Gyle and Ipocrisy.

12. When Reason warns about giving and receiving gifts, how does the narrator react?
(a) He almost agrees with Reason, but decides that he will give gifts anyway.
(b) He agrees with Reason.
(c) He rejects Reason's warning.
(d) He does not listen to Reason's warning.

13. What does Nature give to the narrator?
(a) Two hammers.
(b) Two bags.
(c) Two flowers.
(d) Two books.

14. What does Fals-Semblance compare himself to?
(a) A nun.
(b) A priest.
(c) A villain.
(d) A wild animal.

15. The narrator regrets which character's presence the most?
(a) Wikked-Tunge.
(b) Sweet Thought.
(c) Vekke.
(d) Reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to the narrator when Fals-Semblance and Abstinence are negotiating?

2. Who does Reason cite as an authority for friendship?

3. What do Fals-Semblance and Abstinence do to Wikked-Tunge?

4. When talking with Reason, which character plays devil's advocate?

5. The narrator's argument with Reason helps shift the story from allegory to what type of story?

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