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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is most distinct about the change in style of the novel?
(a) It is long-winded.
(b) It loses focus on the allegory.
(c) It focuses on a new character.
(d) It is concise.

2. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which adjective best describes the guards of the castle?

3. Who stalks the narrator in the garden?

4. Where is the narrator hit by Cupid's arrows?

5. Who does Reason say is a bad master?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bialacoil represent when he is locked away?

2. Why isn't Hope an allegorical character?

3. What does Daunger represent?

4. What is Jealousy's allegorical meaning?

5. How is Dread a caricature?

6. Who is Bialacoil?

7. What are De Lorris's three motives for writing The Romance of the Rose?

8. What is significant about the castle that Jealousy begins to build?

9. How is allegory used in The Romance of the Rose?

10. How is the story of Narcissus an example of foreshadowing?

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