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To Rosamond "To Rosamond" Quiz

1 Who is the author of "To Rosamond"?

William Langland

Julian of Norwich

Geoffrey Chaucer

John Gower
2 What work is Geoffrey Chaucer best known for?

The Canterbury Tales

Piers Plowman

Confessio Amantis

The Parliament of Fowls
3 When was "To Rosamond" discovered?

The late twentieth century

The late fifteenth century

The early nineteenth century

The late nineteenth century
4 How does "To Rosamond" survive?

As an anonymous poem in an anthology

As an inclusion in a previously lost book of Chaucer's poetry

As a loose sheet of paper tucked in an unrelated book

As a note written on the flyleaf of another manuscript
5 Which of the following do critics NOT disagree about when it comes to "To Rosamond"?

Whether it is serious or satirical

When it was written

Who it was written about

Who wrote it
6 Which of Rosamond's physical features does the speaker explicitly describe?

Her hair

Her lips

Her eyes

Her cheeks
7 Which of the following BEST describes what "ointment" represents in line 7?

The sight of Rosamond dancing

The speaker's healing love of God

The speaker's desire for Rosamond

Rosamond's beauty
8 Which line of Stanza 1 contains unusual figurative language for a medieval love poem?

As far as circled is the mappamundi

And like ruby be your cheeks round

For as the crystal glorious you shine

Madame, you be of all beauty shrine
9 What is the mappamundi?

The ocean around the world

A map of the world

The inhabited world

The whole world
10 Which of the following is NOT a plausible interpretation of the gem simile?

Chaucer is employing conventional language to praise a beautiful woman

Chaucer is employing conventional language to mock the cliches of love poetry

Chaucer is suggesting that the speaker is more invested in Rosamond's physical beauty than her spiritual beauty

Chaucer is using unusual language to draw out Rosamond's remarkable beauty
11 Which of the following does not concern love as pain and pleasure?

Yet may that woe my heart not confound

Though you to me not do no dalliance

It is an ointment unto my wound

As I in love am wallowed and am wound
12 Which of the following is not a potential meaning of dalliance?

Sexual intercourse

Profound conversation

Small talk

Marriage proposal
13 What literary device is employed in the lines, "Makes my thought in joy and bliss abound. So courteously I go, with love bound"

Allusion

Simile

Alliteration

Contrast
14 Which line does NOT employ alliteration?

As I in love am wallowed and am wound

Though you to me not do no dalliance

Therewith you be so merry and so jocund

And like ruby be your cheeks round
15 In what voice is "To Rosamond" written?

Third-person omniscient

First person

Third-person limited

Second person
16 "That I am truly Tristan the second" is an example of what literary device?

Metaphor

Allusion

Apostrophe

Juxtaposition
17 In what major work did the character "Tristan" first appear?

The Odyssey

The Canterbury Tales

Ovid's Metamorphosis

Roman de la Rose
18 What does the speaker's allusion to Tristan suggest about Rosamond?

She may be a servant

She may be of higher rank than him

She may not be very beautiful

She may be a woman of poor character
19 What does Chaucer's reference to Tristan suggest about how he wanted to be perceived?

He wanted to seem totally original

He wanted to seem quintessentially British

He wanted to seem influenced by French poetry

He wanted to seem like a working-class poet
20 What is galantine?

A type of sadness

A type of fish

A type of sauce

A type of sickness
21 Which of the following best describes the tone of the first stanza?

Humorous, silly

Bitter, satirical

Serious, dramatic

Frustrated, aggressive
22 Which of the following best describes the speaker's feelings about Rosamond's lack of interest?

Her lack of interest makes him sad, because he knows they could make each other happy

Her lack of interest doesn't affect him, because he enjoys being in love

Her lack of interest frustrates him, because he thinks he deserves her

Her lack of interest makes him angry, because she has been stolen by another man
23 Which of the following is NOT a figure for Rosamond?

Ointment

Crystal

Galantine

Shrine
24 Which of the following is an example of irony?

The speaker desires Rosamond, but she isn't interested in him

The poem suggests that love can be beautiful, but still mocks it

The speaker compares himself to Tristan, even though Tristan was famously uninterested in love

The speaker is wounded by his love for Rosamond, but only seeking her out can heal him
25 Which literary device does NOT appear in "To Rosamond"?

Repetition

Apostrophe

Allusion

Metaphor

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