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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What emotion does the narrator feel most when Bialacoil is locked away?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Relief.
(c) Anger.
(d) Shame.

3. Who does the garden the narrator finds belong to?
(a) Mirth.
(b) Bialacoil.
(c) Cupid.
(d) Vilayn.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Where is the narrator hit by Cupid's arrows?
(a) Heart.
(b) Head.
(c) Back.
(d) Leg.

11. Cupid suggests that people prize which of the following?
(a) What they have become.
(b) What they have suffered for.
(c) What they have desired.
(d) What they have witnessed.

12. Who does Shame protect the roses from?
(a) Cupid.
(b) Wikked-Tunge.
(c) Venus.
(d) Daunger.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the things painted on the wall represent?

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

3. How many arrows does cupid shoot at the narrator?

4. What is the main symbol of love in The Romance of the Rose?

5. What does Bialacoil's welcoming nature personify?

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