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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who keeps the castle gate?
(a) Venus.
(b) Hardinesse.
(c) Cupid.
(d) Drede.

2. Reason describes which of the following as immoral?
(a) Sex.
(b) Genius.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Courtly love.

3. What is corrupted in the description Fals-Semlance provides?
(a) Church.
(b) Castle.
(c) Government.
(d) Society.

4. Who does Fals-Semblance refuse to help?
(a) The abstinent.
(b) The honest.
(c) The poor.
(d) The unfaithful.

5. What is Reason's view of sex?
(a) It is not immoral, but frowned upon.
(b) It leads to danger.
(c) It leads to happiness and health.
(d) It is a sin.

6. What is compared to the feudal system?
(a) Lust.
(b) Embarrassment.
(c) Love.
(d) Happiness.

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

8. What happens to the translation as Fals-Semblance and Abstinence negotiate?
(a) The translation breaks off.
(b) The translation becomes more intense.
(c) The translation seems more difficult.
(d) The translation seems more florid.

9. Genius or Kinde are references to which of the following?
(a) Love.
(b) Nature.
(c) Peace.
(d) Acceptance.

10. Reason declares the vice of rich people to be which of the following?
(a) Shame.
(b) Covetousness.
(c) Misery.
(d) Jealousy.

11. What does Reason say he will keep the narrator safe from?
(a) Shame.
(b) Fortune.
(c) Popularity.
(d) Lust.

12. Who are Fals-Semblance's parents?
(a) Gyle and Chastity.
(b) Abstinence and Ipocrisy.
(c) Gyle and Ipocrisy.
(d) Ipocrisy and Chastity.

13. What literary device is used in the phrase "in one ear and out the other," which is used in The Romance of the Rose?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Cliche.
(c) Epiphany.
(d) Irony.

14. Fals-Semblance says a priest gets rich due to which of the following?
(a) Faith.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Sin.
(d) Indulgences.

15. Which characters rally with Sweet Thought?
(a) Looking and Speech.
(b) Courtesy and Charm.
(c) Jealousy and Courtesy.
(d) Shame and Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character argues with the narrator, convincing him of many points outside the castle?

2. Whose barons agree to help the narrator?

3. What weapon does Fals-Semblance have hidden?

4. Who admits to abusing his wife?

5. Reason says that a paramour is which of the following?

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