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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which adjective best describes the guards of the castle?
(a) Nonexistent.
(b) Vigilant.
(c) Angry.
(d) Relaxed.

2. What role does Hope take?
(a) Pressurer.
(b) Educator.
(c) Comforter.
(d) Antagonizer.

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

4. What is true about the presence of time in The Romance of the Rose?
(a) Time moves very slowly.
(b) Time passes very quickly.
(c) There is no sense of passing time.
(d) There is no need for a reference to time.

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

6. How old is the narrator at the time he is discussing the dream?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 25.
(d) 35.

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

8. What is Recreaundyse symbolic of?
(a) Faithlessness.
(b) Courtesy.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Hypocrisy.

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

10. Who does the narrator discover has died at the well he sits near?
(a) Narcissus.
(b) Cupid.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) His own father.

11. Who does Lechery declare war on?
(a) Chastity.
(b) Shame.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Cupid.

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

13. Who does Jealousy want to lock away?
(a) Venus.
(b) Bialacoil.
(c) Lechery.
(d) The narrator.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wikked-Tunge represent?

2. Why does the style of The Romance of the Rose change so much after a certain point?

3. In the allegory, what does the woman shut the man out of?

4. In what month does the narrator's dream occur?

5. The description of which character is not an abstract personification?

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