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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 does Jealousy want to lock away?
(a) Bialacoil.
(b) Lechery.
(c) Venus.
(d) The narrator.

2. What kills Echo?
(a) Unrequited love.
(b) Courtship.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Lust.

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

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

5. Who or what does Daungter protect?
(a) Wikked-Tunge.
(b) Venus.
(c) The castle.
(d) The rose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Shame's father?

2. Who does the garden the narrator finds belong to?

3. Who are Venus's children?

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

5. What does Bialacoil's welcoming nature personify?

Short Essay Questions

1. How might the reader's sympathy shift as a result of the way the woman reacts to her suitor?

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

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

4. What does love feel like for the narrator?

5. Who is Vekke?

6. What is Jealousy's allegorical meaning?

7. Why is the narrator's request to kiss the rose a turning point in the novel?

8. What message does the allegory relay about the way a woman reacts to a man's interest?

9. Who is Bialacoil?

10. What does Daunger represent?

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