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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Dread afraid of?
(a) His own shadow.
(b) Love.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) The narrator.

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

4. In what month does the narrator's dream occur?
(a) September.
(b) December.
(c) March.
(d) May.

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

6. The narrator says that dreams are symbolic of which of the following?
(a) Fantasies.
(b) Truth.
(c) Desires.
(d) Nothing.

7. Who does Reason say is a bad master?
(a) Shame.
(b) Cupid.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Venus.

8. Why does the style of The Romance of the Rose change so much after a certain point?
(a) The narrator's feelings change quickly.
(b) The story is divided into a beginning and an ending.
(c) The text gets a new author.
(d) The narrator wakes up.

9. The description of which character is not an abstract personification?
(a) Shame.
(b) Bialacoil.
(c) Vekke.
(d) Jealousy.

10. What is Daunger most associated with?
(a) Social status.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Financial success.
(d) Abstinence.

11. Who or what does Daungter protect?
(a) The castle.
(b) Wikked-Tunge.
(c) The rose.
(d) Venus.

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

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

14. What is Bialacoil's title?
(a) Knight.
(b) Squire.
(c) Duke.
(d) Sir.

15. What is Recreaundyse symbolic of?
(a) Hypocrisy.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Faithlessness.
(d) Courtesy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the allegory, what are shame and dread representative of?

2. The narrator follows the river to which location?

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

4. Who does the "Art of Love" refer to?

5. What does the narrator sit down below after seeing the couples in the garden?

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