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

2. Who does Wikked-Tunge especially villify?
(a) Women.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Widows.
(d) Parents.

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

4. Who or what does Daungter protect?
(a) Venus.
(b) The castle.
(c) The rose.
(d) Wikked-Tunge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the things painted on the wall represent?

2. The new style that takes over The Romance of the Rose focuses on what kind of traits?

3. Who appears to be the reverse of villainy?

4. Who does the garden the narrator finds belong to?

5. Who does the "Art of Love" refer to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the narrator's request to kiss the rose a turning point in the novel?

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

3. Who is Vekke?

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

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

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

7. What is Jealousy's allegorical meaning?

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

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

10. What does Bialacoil represent in the allegory?

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