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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does De Lorris use to describe the garden?
(a) Terror.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Joy.

2. Cupid tells the narrator that a lover must shun which trait?
(a) Lust.
(b) Villainy.
(c) Courtesy.
(d) Recreaundyse.

3. Which character resolves to be in good hope?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Shame.
(c) Hope.
(d) Bialacoil.

4. The narrator now knows what it is like to be in which of the following?
(a) Love's service.
(b) Great pain.
(c) Cupid's hold.
(d) Venus's garden.

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

6. What does the narrator see at the bottom of the well?
(a) Vices.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Women.
(d) Crystals.

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

8. The narrator follows the river to which location?
(a) A garden.
(b) A fountain.
(c) A cottage.
(d) A castle.

9. The new style that takes over The Romance of the Rose focuses on what kind of traits?
(a) Natural.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Physiological.

10. What does Daungter represent?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Self-respect.
(c) Anger.
(d) Danger.

11. In the allegory, what are shame and dread representative of?
(a) Important parts of a relationship.
(b) Aspects of love.
(c) Characteristics that make one a good partner.
(d) Aspects of personality.

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

13. Who prevents Bialacoil from granting the narrator's request for a kiss?
(a) Venus.
(b) Mirth.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Cupid.

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

15. What is Vilanye representative of?
(a) Rudeness.
(b) Embarrassment.
(c) Hypocrisy.
(d) Eagerness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who appears to be the reverse of villainy?

2. The people in the court are representative of which of the following?

3. Who does Wikked-Tunge especially villify?

4. Who is Shame's father?

5. Who snarls at and then chases the narrator in the rose garden?

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