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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 4101-4276.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true about the presence of time in The Romance of the Rose?
(a) Time moves very slowly.
(b) Time passes very quickly.
(c) There is no need for a reference to time.
(d) There is no sense of passing time.

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

3. Who forbids all the visitors from the rose garden?
(a) Shame.
(b) Daunger.
(c) Venus.
(d) Courtesy.

4. What is the main symbol of love in The Romance of the Rose?
(a) Roses.
(b) Water.
(c) Women.
(d) Fountains.

5. Who is Shame's father?
(a) Cupid.
(b) Courtesy.
(c) Trespass.
(d) Mirth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Recreaundyse symbolic of?

3. What is the principle literary device in The Romance of the Rose?

4. Who or what does Daungter protect?

5. In the allegory, what does the woman shut the man out of?

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