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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lacuna 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cupid promise to reveal to the narrator?
(a) The art of lust.
(b) The art of love.
(c) The art of hope.
(d) The art of prayer.

2. What does Cupid begin to question?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Religion.
(c) Love.
(d) Hope.

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

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

5. The narrator now knows what it is like to be in which of the following?
(a) Great pain.
(b) Love's service.
(c) Venus's garden.
(d) Cupid's hold.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the messages in The Romance of the Rose is that hope can do what to a lover?

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

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

4. What is most distinct about the change in style of the novel?

5. Who does the narrator ask if he can pick the rose?

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