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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Bialacoil's welcoming nature personify?
(a) The lady's fortune.
(b) The lady's shallowness.
(c) The lady's embarrassment and shame.
(d) The lady's friendliness.

6. Who do Dread and Shame wake up?
(a) The rose.
(b) Daunger.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) The narrator.

7. Who touches Bialacoil with a torch?
(a) Wikked-Tunge.
(b) Shame.
(c) Venus.
(d) Cupid.

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

9. What is ribaldry a reference to?
(a) Dirty jokes.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Lust.

10. Who does Shame dress up like?
(a) A queen.
(b) A child.
(c) A priest.
(d) A nun.

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

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

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

14. In what way is Dread portrayed?
(a) Negatively.
(b) Repulsively.
(c) Comically.
(d) Seriously.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does De Lorris use to describe the garden?

2. Who stalks the narrator in the garden?

3. The narrator now knows what it is like to be in which of the following?

4. What is Bialacoil's title?

5. Who is Shame's father?

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