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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which adjective best describes the couples in the garden?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Sad.
(c) Happy.
(d) Angry.

2. Who invites the narrator to dance first?
(a) Bialacoil.
(b) Courtesy.
(c) Wikked-Tunge.
(d) Mirth.

3. Who are Venus's children?
(a) Cupid and Shame.
(b) Chastity, Charity, and Courtesy.
(c) Shame and Chastity.
(d) Cupid and Chastity.

4. Who appears to be the reverse of villainy?
(a) Mirth.
(b) Bialacoil.
(c) Courtesy.
(d) Frankness.

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

6. The narrator's longing to enter the garden mirrors which reference?
(a) A holiday wish.
(b) A reference to Sophocles.
(c) The garden of Eden.
(d) Alice's Wonderland.

7. How old was the narrator when he had the dream he describes?
(a) 20.
(b) 25.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

8. What trait is most associated with courtly love?
(a) Youth.
(b) Hesitance.
(c) Eagerness.
(d) Anger.

9. Who does the "Art of Love" refer to?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Lorris.

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

11. What does Wikked-Tunge represent?
(a) Anger.
(b) Embarrassment.
(c) Gossip.
(d) Danger.

12. Who does the narrator discover has died at the well he sits near?
(a) His own father.
(b) Narcissus.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Cupid.

13. Who does the narrator ask if he can pick the rose?
(a) Bialacoil.
(b) Cupid.
(c) Courtesy.
(d) Daunger.

14. Where is the narrator hit by Cupid's arrows?
(a) Back.
(b) Heart.
(c) Leg.
(d) Head.

15. Who is Reason's daughter?
(a) Shame.
(b) Pain.
(c) Trespass.
(d) Cupid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dread afraid of?

2. Which character is most symbolic of punishment?

3. Cupid suggests that people prize which of the following?

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

5. What is Bialacoil's title?

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