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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Reason warns about giving and receiving gifts, how does the narrator react?
(a) He does not listen to Reason's warning.
(b) He almost agrees with Reason, but decides that he will give gifts anyway.
(c) He rejects Reason's warning.
(d) He agrees with Reason.

3. What does Venus represent?
(a) Femininity.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Love.
(d) Masculinity.

4. One of the messages in The Romance of the Rose is that hope can do what to a lover?
(a) Hurt.
(b) Lose.
(c) Beguile.
(d) Seek.

5. Which of the following demonstrates the narrator's lamentations?
(a) Poetry about nature.
(b) Poetry about the castle.
(c) Poetry about love.
(d) Poetry about anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pope-Hope representative of?

2. When talking with Reason, which character plays devil's advocate?

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

4. The narrator says that dreams are symbolic of which of the following?

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

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