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

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

3. What is off-limits for courtly love, according to Cupid?
(a) Giving presents.
(b) Holding hands.
(c) Talking about nature.
(d) Crude talk.

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

5. Who snarls at and then chases the narrator in the rose garden?
(a) Bialacoil.
(b) Wikked-Tunge.
(c) Venus.
(d) Daunger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator sit down below after seeing the couples in the garden?

2. What kills Echo?

3. How old is the narrator at the time he is discussing the dream?

4. What is Daunger most associated with?

5. What is distinct about Wikked-Tungue's appearance?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Bialacoil?

3. What does Venus's presence in the rose garden mean?

4. How is allegory used in The Romance of the Rose?

5. What are De Lorris's three motives for writing The Romance of the Rose?

6. How is the story of Narcissus an example of foreshadowing?

7. Describe the change that occurs in the writing style in the middle of the book.

8. What is Jealousy's allegorical meaning?

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

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

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