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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 does the "Art of Love" refer to?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Lorris.

2. Who does the narrator ask if he can pick the rose?
(a) Bialacoil.
(b) Daunger.
(c) Courtesy.
(d) Cupid.

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

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

5. What kind of pain does Reason argue about?
(a) Pain of logic.
(b) Pain of ignorance.
(c) Pain of love.
(d) Pain of happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Shame dress up like?

2. What is Dread afraid of?

3. The description of which character is not an abstract personification?

4. What are gunnes?

5. What reason is suggested for becoming a good knight?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Bialacoil?

3. What does Daunger represent?

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

5. Describe the tone De Lorris uses to describe the narrator's entrance to Mirth's garden.

6. Describe one of the vices painted on the garden wall.

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

8. What does Bialacoil represent in the allegory?

9. What does love feel like for the narrator?

10. Describe Reason.

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