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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Dread and Shame wake up?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) The rose.
(c) Daunger.
(d) The narrator.

2. What does Venus represent?
(a) Femininity.
(b) Masculinity.
(c) Love.
(d) Sexuality.

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

4. Who begins to build a castle?
(a) Shame.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Bialacoil.

5. In what month does the narrator's dream occur?
(a) September.
(b) March.
(c) May.
(d) December.

6. The narrator says that dreams are symbolic of which of the following?
(a) Truth.
(b) Desires.
(c) Fantasies.
(d) Nothing.

7. What is the principle literary device in The Romance of the Rose?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Allegory.

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

9. Who does Wikked-Tunge especially villify?
(a) Parents.
(b) Lovers.
(c) Women.
(d) Widows.

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

11. Cupid tells the narrator that a lover must shun which trait?
(a) Recreaundyse.
(b) Lust.
(c) Courtesy.
(d) Villainy.

12. What do the things painted on the wall represent?
(a) People who have visited in the past.
(b) People who live inside.
(c) Heroes.
(d) Vices not allowed inside.

13. The narrator now knows what it is like to be in which of the following?
(a) Great pain.
(b) Venus's garden.
(c) Love's service.
(d) Cupid's hold.

14. What are gunnes?
(a) Cannons.
(b) Mirrors.
(c) Spikes.
(d) Walls.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Hope take?

2. Where does the narrator go to seek love immediately after visiting the well?

3. Who stalks the narrator in the garden?

4. Who are Venus's children?

5. The narrator discusses the tendency to look where for matters of love?

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