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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The new style that takes over The Romance of the Rose focuses on what kind of traits?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Physiological.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Natural.

2. What does the narrator see at the bottom of the well?
(a) Women.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Crystals.
(d) Vices.

3. What trait is most associated with courtly love?
(a) Anger.
(b) Youth.
(c) Eagerness.
(d) Hesitance.

4. What is ribaldry a reference to?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Lust.
(c) Dirty jokes.
(d) Happiness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the style of The Romance of the Rose change so much after a certain point?

2. Reason stresses the need to control which of the following?

3. In this allegory, how is it assumed that a woman will respond to a man?

4. In the allegory where the rose represents the woman, who will she not defy?

5. The narrator follows the river to which location?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is allegorical about the rose in the garden?

2. What does Bialacoil represent in the allegory?

3. What is Jealousy's allegorical meaning?

4. What does love feel like for the narrator?

5. What are De Lorris's three motives for writing The Romance of the Rose?

6. How can the rose in The Romance of the Rose be compared to Juliet from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

7. Why is the narrator's request to kiss the rose a turning point in the novel?

8. Describe the tone De Lorris uses to describe the narrator's entrance to Mirth's garden.

9. What message does the allegory relay about the way a woman reacts to a man's interest?

10. How does Cupid suggest that the narrator can be a good suitor?

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