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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which character is most symbolic of punishment?
(a) Reason.
(b) Shame.
(c) Dread.
(d) Venus.

6. What is Pope-Hope representative of?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) Hypocrisy.
(d) Lust.

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

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

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

10. Who wakes up Jealousy?
(a) Bialacoil.
(b) Wikked-Tunge.
(c) Shame.
(d) Venus.

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

12. What kills Echo?
(a) Courtship.
(b) Lust.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Unrequited love.

13. What do the things painted on the wall represent?
(a) Heroes.
(b) People who live inside.
(c) Vices not allowed inside.
(d) People who have visited in the past.

14. Which adjective best describes the guards of the castle?
(a) Angry.
(b) Relaxed.
(c) Vigilant.
(d) Nonexistent.

15. In the allegory where the rose represents the woman, who will she not defy?
(a) Her faith.
(b) Her lover.
(c) Her reason.
(d) Her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator discover has died at the well he sits near?

2. In what month does the narrator's dream occur?

3. What emotion does the narrator feel most when Bialacoil is locked away?

4. What is most distinct about the change in style of the novel?

5. What reason is suggested for becoming a good knight?

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