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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lines 7337-7698.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dread afraid of?
(a) His own shadow.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Love.
(d) The narrator.

2. What is the main symbol of love in The Romance of the Rose?
(a) Water.
(b) Fountains.
(c) Women.
(d) Roses.

3. Who invites the narrator to dance first?
(a) Courtesy.
(b) Wikked-Tunge.
(c) Bialacoil.
(d) Mirth.

4. Who criticizes William Seynt Amour?
(a) Bialacoil and Vekke.
(b) Fals-Semblance and Hypocrisy.
(c) Venus and Cupid.
(d) Cupid and the narrator.

5. What is Pope-Hope representative of?
(a) Lust.
(b) Hypocrisy.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Alcoholism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is true about the presence of time in The Romance of the Rose?

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

4. Which character is most symbolic of punishment?

5. Who has the ability to be any woman?

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