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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. Reason compares courtly love to which of the following?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Prostitution.
(d) Lust.

2. Who does Cupid scold for retreating?
(a) Reason.
(b) Venus.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Richesse.

3. Who takes the crown of flowers to Bialacoil?
(a) Venus.
(b) Vekke.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Wikked-Tunge.

4. What does the narrator claim to regret?
(a) Entering the garden.
(b) Kissing the rose.
(c) Falling in love.
(d) Falling asleep.

5. Who descends from the tower to talk to the narrator?
(a) Love.
(b) Reason.
(c) Bialacoil.
(d) Rebel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is corrupted in the description Fals-Semlance provides?

2. Reason says that a good friend will help another in what way?

3. Reason says that a paramour is which of the following?

4. What does Cupid promise to reveal to the narrator?

5. Which character is representative of pleasant thoughts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan is put in place for the narrator to get the woman he loves?

2. What immorality does Reason describe?

3. What are the main differences between Venus and Cupid?

4. How do the topics and themes in The Romance of the Rose change with the change in authors?

5. What role does misogyny play in The Romance of the Rose?

6. What happens to the narrator when Fals-Semblance takes over the plan, and why?

7. How does Cupid respond to Fals-Semblance?

8. What does Reason say about rich people?

9. How do Fals-Semblance and Abstinence work together?

10. Why does Reason disapprove of gifts?

(see the answer keys)

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