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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Venus's children?
(a) Shame and Chastity.
(b) Chastity, Charity, and Courtesy.
(c) Cupid and Shame.
(d) Cupid and Chastity.

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

3. Who does the garden the narrator finds belong to?
(a) Vilayn.
(b) Bialacoil.
(c) Mirth.
(d) Cupid.

4. Who does the narrator discover has died at the well he sits near?
(a) Narcissus.
(b) His own father.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Cupid.

5. Reason stresses the need to control which of the following?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Lust.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Love.

6. In the allegory where the rose represents the woman, who will she not defy?
(a) Her faith.
(b) Her family.
(c) Her reason.
(d) Her lover.

7. Which adjective best describes the couples in the garden?
(a) Sad.
(b) Happy.
(c) Angry.
(d) Desperate.

8. The narrator imagines the feeling of the kiss he requests as feeling like which of the following?
(a) Exciting.
(b) Bliss.
(c) Embarrassing.
(d) Shameful.

9. What reason is suggested for becoming a good knight?
(a) To earn money.
(b) To protect others.
(c) To win praise.
(d) To be happy.

10. The narrator's longing to enter the garden mirrors which reference?
(a) A reference to Sophocles.
(b) The garden of Eden.
(c) Alice's Wonderland.
(d) A holiday wish.

11. What does fairsemblaunce represent?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Religion.
(c) Hypocrisy.
(d) Charm.

12. What is Recreaundyse symbolic of?
(a) Faithlessness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Courtesy.
(d) Hypocrisy.

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

14. Who wakes up Jealousy?
(a) Bialacoil.
(b) Shame.
(c) Wikked-Tunge.
(d) Venus.

15. Who does the "Art of Love" refer to?
(a) Lorris.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Ovid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator chased to?

2. Who stalks the narrator in the garden?

3. The description of which character is not an abstract personification?

4. Who does Shame protect the roses from?

5. Who does Jealousy want to lock away?

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