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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. The narrator's longing to enter the garden mirrors which reference?
(a) Alice's Wonderland.
(b) A reference to Sophocles.
(c) A holiday wish.
(d) The garden of Eden.

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

3. Who snarls at and then chases the narrator in the rose garden?
(a) Bialacoil.
(b) Wikked-Tunge.
(c) Daunger.
(d) Venus.

4. Which of the following demonstrates the narrator's lamentations?
(a) Poetry about nature.
(b) Poetry about love.
(c) Poetry about anger.
(d) Poetry about the castle.

5. The narrator discusses the tendency to look where for matters of love?
(a) The past.
(b) Books.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Films.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who forbids all the visitors from the rose garden?

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

3. Who is described as an old hag?

4. Who does the narrator discover has died at the well he sits near?

5. Who prevents Bialacoil from granting the narrator's request for a kiss?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Daunger represent?

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

4. What is the significance of the springtime in the story?

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

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

7. Why isn't Hope an allegorical character?

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

9. What is Jealousy's allegorical meaning?

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

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