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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 5877-6016.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Pope-Hope representative of?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Lust.
(d) Hypocrisy.

2. In the allegory, what are shame and dread representative of?
(a) Characteristics that make one a good partner.
(b) Aspects of love.
(c) Aspects of personality.
(d) Important parts of a relationship.

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

4. The description of which character is not an abstract personification?
(a) Bialacoil.
(b) Vekke.
(c) Shame.
(d) Jealousy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Cupid is described through a metaphor as which of the following?

2. Reason compares courtly love to which of the following?

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

4. Where does the narrator go to seek love immediately after visiting the well?

5. What is the narrator's view of the arguments that Reason makes?

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