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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In this allegory, how is it assumed that a woman will respond to a man?
(a) Wickedly.
(b) Gingerly.
(c) Eagerly.
(d) Coldly.

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

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

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

9. What is the principle literary device in The Romance of the Rose?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Metonymy.

10. Where does the narrator go to seek love immediately after visiting the well?
(a) The dining hall.
(b) The castle.
(c) The fountains.
(d) The rose garden.

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

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

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

14. Who does Lady Mirth say holds the key to the Garden of Mirth?
(a) Shame.
(b) Idleness.
(c) Courtesy.
(d) Reason.

15. Who does Shame debate with?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Venus.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Cupid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bialacoil's welcoming nature personify?

2. Who begins to build a castle?

3. Who is Shame's father?

4. Who or what does the narrator request to kiss?

5. How old is the narrator at the time he is discussing the dream?

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