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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 does fairsemblaunce represent?
(a) Hypocrisy.
(b) Charm.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Religion.

2. What does Bialacoil's welcoming nature personify?
(a) The lady's shallowness.
(b) The lady's friendliness.
(c) The lady's fortune.
(d) The lady's embarrassment and shame.

3. Who is Shame's father?
(a) Mirth.
(b) Cupid.
(c) Trespass.
(d) Courtesy.

4. What does the narrator sit down below after seeing the couples in the garden?
(a) Awning.
(b) Pine tree.
(c) Elm tree.
(d) Willow tree.

5. Who does Jealousy want to lock away?
(a) Bialacoil.
(b) Lechery.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Venus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is most distinct about the change in style of the novel?

2. What is true about the presence of time in The Romance of the Rose?

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

4. What role does Hope take?

5. What is Pope-Hope representative of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Asses the arguments Reason makes about the pain of love and the need to control emotions.

2. What is Good Hope?

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

4. What does Daunger represent?

5. Describe Wikked-Tunge's appearance.

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

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

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

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

10. How is Dread a caricature?

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