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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Vilanye representative of?
(a) Embarrassment.
(b) Rudeness.
(c) Hypocrisy.
(d) Eagerness.

4. What is Bialacoil's title?
(a) Squire.
(b) Knight.
(c) Sir.
(d) Duke.

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

6. Which character resolves to be in good hope?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Shame.
(c) Hope.
(d) Bialacoil.

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

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

9. 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 wakes up.
(c) The narrator's feelings change quickly.
(d) The story is divided into a beginning and an ending.

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

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

12. Who begins to build a castle?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Shame.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Bialacoil.

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

14. Who does Reason say is a bad master?
(a) Shame.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Cupid.
(d) Venus.

15. The new style that takes over The Romance of the Rose focuses on what kind of traits?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Natural.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Physiological.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Venus represent?

3. What does the narrator sit down below after seeing the couples in the garden?

4. In this allegory, how is it assumed that a woman will respond to a man?

5. The narrator is told that he must wait for which of the following before picking the rose?

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