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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Reason's daughter?
(a) Shame.
(b) Cupid.
(c) Trespass.
(d) Pain.

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

4. Reason stresses the need to control which of the following?
(a) Love.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Lust.

5. The narrator imagines the feeling of the kiss he requests as feeling like which of the following?
(a) Shameful.
(b) Exciting.
(c) Bliss.
(d) Embarrassing.

6. Cupid is described through a metaphor as which of the following?
(a) Lover.
(b) Fighter.
(c) Hunter.
(d) Visionary.

7. Who does Wikked-Tunge especially villify?
(a) Women.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Parents.
(d) Widows.

8. What reason is suggested for becoming a good knight?
(a) To be happy.
(b) To win praise.
(c) To earn money.
(d) To protect others.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Who or what does the narrator request to kiss?
(a) The rose.
(b) The garden wall.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Bialacoil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the garden the narrator finds belong to?

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

3. Which of the following demonstrates the narrator's lamentations?

4. What is Dread afraid of?

5. What is Pope-Hope representative of?

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