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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. What does Wikked-Tunge represent?

2. Which character resolves to be in good hope?

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

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

5. Reason stresses the need to control which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the story of Narcissus an example of foreshadowing?

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

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

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

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

6. What does love feel like for the narrator?

7. Describe the view of Narcissus that the narrator has.

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

9. Who is Bialacoil?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Reason discusses the differences between Youth and Age. Describe these differences and the message Reason hopes to convey about both characteristics. Is Reason right about the differences between Youth and Age?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Why is the setting so significant to the dream? What parallels between the story and the season in which the dream is set are present? Why are they significant?

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