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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 now knows what it is like to be in which of the following?
(a) Cupid's hold.
(b) Venus's garden.
(c) Great pain.
(d) Love's service.

2. What trait is most associated with courtly love?
(a) Hesitance.
(b) Youth.
(c) Anger.
(d) Eagerness.

3. In this allegory, how is it assumed that a woman will respond to a man?
(a) Eagerly.
(b) Coldly.
(c) Gingerly.
(d) Wickedly.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the narrator when he had the dream he describes?

2. How old is the narrator at the time he is discussing the dream?

3. What is off-limits for courtly love, according to Cupid?

4. Who does Shame debate with?

5. The narrator imagines the feeling of the kiss he requests as feeling like which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Vekke?

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

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

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

7. What does Bialacoil represent in the allegory?

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

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

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

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