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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 3787-3957.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The people in the court are representative of which of the following?
(a) Characteristics desirable in oneself.
(b) Characteristics one may perceive everybody else to have.
(c) Characteristics desirable in a lover.
(d) Characteristics undesirable in a lover.

2. What is off-limits for courtly love, according to Cupid?
(a) Crude talk.
(b) Talking about nature.
(c) Holding hands.
(d) Giving presents.

3. Cupid suggests that people prize which of the following?
(a) What they have desired.
(b) What they have witnessed.
(c) What they have become.
(d) What they have suffered for.

4. In this allegory, how is it assumed that a woman will respond to a man?
(a) Wickedly.
(b) Gingerly.
(c) Coldly.
(d) Eagerly.

5. What is the principle literary device in The Romance of the Rose?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Allegory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what does the narrator request to kiss?

2. Who does the garden the narrator finds belong to?

3. What do the things painted on the wall represent?

4. Where is the narrator chased to?

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

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