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

2. What is the principle literary device in The Romance of the Rose?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Allegory.

3. The narrator follows the river to which location?
(a) A castle.
(b) A cottage.
(c) A garden.
(d) A fountain.

4. Where is the narrator hit by Cupid's arrows?
(a) Leg.
(b) Heart.
(c) Back.
(d) Head.

5. Cupid suggests that people prize which of the following?
(a) What they have desired.
(b) What they have suffered for.
(c) What they have become.
(d) What they have witnessed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which adjective best describes the couples in the garden?

2. What does Wikked-Tunge represent?

3. Who or what does Daungter protect?

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

5. Cupid tells the narrator that a lover must shun which trait?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Venus's presence in the rose garden mean?

5. Describe the change that occurs in the writing style in the middle of the book.

6. What is Good Hope?

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

8. What message does the allegory relay about the way a woman reacts to a man's interest?

9. How is Dread a caricature?

10. What are De Lorris's three motives for writing The Romance of the Rose?

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