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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 reason is suggested for becoming a good knight?
(a) To win praise.
(b) To protect others.
(c) To be happy.
(d) To earn money.

2. In the allegory, what does the woman shut the man out of?
(a) Fear of punishment.
(b) Fear of love.
(c) Fear of heartbreak.
(d) Fear of commitment.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Shame protect the roses from?

2. What is distinct about Wikked-Tungue's appearance?

3. What does De Lorris use to describe the garden?

4. Who touches Bialacoil with a torch?

5. What does Bialacoil's welcoming nature personify?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does love feel like for the narrator?

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

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

4. How does Cupid suggest that the narrator can be a good suitor?

5. How can the rose in The Romance of the Rose be compared to Juliet from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

6. What is Good Hope?

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

8. Describe one of the characters at court in the garden.

9. Describe the view of Narcissus that the narrator has.

10. Why isn't Hope an allegorical character?

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