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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 couples in the garden?
(a) Angry.
(b) Happy.
(c) Sad.
(d) Desperate.

2. Where is the narrator chased to?
(a) Inside the well.
(b) Outside the hedges.
(c) Behind a fountain.
(d) Inside the castle.

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

4. How many arrows does cupid shoot at the narrator?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What kills Echo?
(a) Lust.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Courtship.
(d) Unrequited love.

12. What does De Lorris use to describe the garden?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Joy.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Terror.

13. Why does the style of The Romance of the Rose change so much after a certain point?
(a) The text gets a new author.
(b) The narrator's feelings change quickly.
(c) The narrator wakes up.
(d) The story is divided into a beginning and an ending.

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

15. What does the narrator sit down below after seeing the couples in the garden?
(a) Pine tree.
(b) Awning.
(c) Elm tree.
(d) Willow tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cupid is described through a metaphor as which of the following?

2. Who or what does Daungter protect?

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

4. Where does the narrator go to seek love immediately after visiting the well?

5. What is the principle literary device in The Romance of the Rose?

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