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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Reason's daughter?
(a) Trespass.
(b) Cupid.
(c) Pain.
(d) Shame.

2. Who appears to be the reverse of villainy?
(a) Courtesy.
(b) Bialacoil.
(c) Mirth.
(d) Frankness.

3. Which adjective best describes the guards of the castle?
(a) Vigilant.
(b) Angry.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Relaxed.

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

5. Who does the narrator ask if he can pick the rose?
(a) Cupid.
(b) Courtesy.
(c) Daunger.
(d) Bialacoil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what does Daungter protect?

2. Who is described as an old hag?

3. What do the things painted on the wall represent?

4. What emotion does the narrator feel most when Bialacoil is locked away?

5. Who snarls at and then chases the narrator in the rose garden?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Wikked-Tunge's appearance.

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

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

4. What is significant about the castle that Jealousy begins to build?

5. Describe the tone De Lorris uses to describe the narrator's entrance to Mirth's garden.

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

7. What does Bialacoil represent when he is locked away?

8. What does love feel like for the narrator?

9. What is the significance of the springtime in the story?

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

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