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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. Who stalks the narrator in the garden?
(a) Cupid.
(b) Venus.
(c) The rose.
(d) Courtesy.

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

3. Who touches Bialacoil with a torch?
(a) Cupid.
(b) Shame.
(c) Wikked-Tunge.
(d) Venus.

4. Which adjective best describes the couples in the garden?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Happy.
(c) Sad.
(d) Angry.

5. What does Venus represent?
(a) Love.
(b) Masculinity.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Femininity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is most symbolic of punishment?

2. What is off-limits for courtly love, according to Cupid?

3. Who begins to build a castle?

4. Who or what does the narrator request to kiss?

5. What does Daungter represent?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the change that occurs in the writing style in the middle of the book.

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

3. What is allegorical about the rose in the garden?

4. What does Daunger represent?

5. Why isn't Hope an allegorical character?

6. How might the reader's sympathy shift as a result of the way the woman reacts to her suitor?

7. What does Bialacoil represent in the allegory?

8. Describe Wikked-Tunge's appearance.

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

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

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