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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. How many arrows does cupid shoot at the narrator?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.

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

3. Which adjective best describes the couples in the garden?
(a) Desperate.
(b) Happy.
(c) Sad.
(d) Angry.

4. The new style that takes over The Romance of the Rose focuses on what kind of traits?
(a) Physiological.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Natural.
(d) Philosophical.

5. Who does the garden the narrator finds belong to?
(a) Vilayn.
(b) Mirth.
(c) Cupid.
(d) Bialacoil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daungter represent?

2. What are gunnes?

3. What does Venus represent?

4. Who does Lady Mirth say holds the key to the Garden of Mirth?

5. Where is the narrator hit by Cupid's arrows?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does love feel like for the narrator?

3. Describe Wikked-Tunge's appearance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is Good Hope?

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