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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who prevents Bialacoil from granting the narrator's request for a kiss?

2. Which of the following demonstrates the narrator's lamentations?

3. What is distinct about Wikked-Tungue's appearance?

4. The narrator follows the river to which location?

5. Who does the narrator discover has died at the well he sits near?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Dread a caricature?

4. Why isn't Hope an allegorical character?

5. What does Bialacoil represent in the allegory?

6. Who is Bialacoil?

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

8. Who is Vekke?

9. What is Jealousy's allegorical meaning?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What qualities and characteristics does Cupid apply to good lovers and suitors? Does the narrator agree with Cupid? In what ways are Cupid's ideas of good lovers and suitors conflicted?

Essay Topic 2

Describe three instances of foreshadowing evident in The Romance of the Rose. What does each example foreshadow? What literary devices contribute to the use of foreshadowing?

Essay Topic 3

How does the narrator fall in love? How is the feeling of falling in love described? Why is it described this way?

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