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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 5027-5155.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What message does Reason want to convey to the narrator about youth?
(a) To make his own mistakes.
(b) To consider consequences.
(c) To be happy.
(d) To become religious.

3. Who does Shame debate with?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Venus.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Cupid.

4. Who or what does the narrator request to kiss?
(a) The garden wall.
(b) Chastity.
(c) Bialacoil.
(d) The rose.

5. What does fairsemblaunce represent?
(a) Charm.
(b) Religion.
(c) Hypocrisy.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator see at the bottom of the well?

2. What trait is most associated with courtly love?

3. Who begins to build a castle?

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

5. Reason associates courtly love with which of the following?

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