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To Rosamond "To Rosamond" Quiz

1 Who is the author of "To Rosamond"?

Geoffrey Chaucer

William Langland

John Gower

Julian of Norwich
2 What work is Geoffrey Chaucer best known for?

Confessio Amantis

The Canterbury Tales

Piers Plowman

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

The early nineteenth century

The late nineteenth century

The late twentieth century

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

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

As a loose sheet of paper tucked in an unrelated book

As an anonymous poem in an anthology

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"?

Who wrote it

Whether it is serious or satirical

Who it was written about

When it was written
6 Which of Rosamond's physical features does the speaker explicitly describe?

Her eyes

Her cheeks

Her lips

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

Rosamond's beauty

The speaker's healing love of God

The sight of Rosamond dancing

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

For as the crystal glorious you shine

Madame, you be of all beauty shrine

And like ruby be your cheeks round

As far as circled is the mappamundi
9 What is the mappamundi?

The inhabited world

The ocean around the world

A map of the world

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

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

Chaucer is employing conventional language to praise a beautiful woman

Chaucer is using unusual language to draw out Rosamond's remarkable beauty

Chaucer is suggesting that the speaker is more invested in Rosamond's physical beauty than her spiritual beauty
11 Which of the following does not concern love as pain and pleasure?

It is an ointment unto my wound

As I in love am wallowed and am wound

Though you to me not do no dalliance

Yet may that woe my heart not confound
12 Which of the following is not a potential meaning of dalliance?

Profound conversation

Sexual intercourse

Marriage proposal

Small talk
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

And like ruby be your cheeks round

Therewith you be so merry and so jocund

Though you to me not do no dalliance
15 In what voice is "To Rosamond" written?

Second person

First person

Third-person limited

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

Juxtaposition

Metaphor

Allusion

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

Roman de la Rose

The Canterbury Tales

The Odyssey

Ovid's Metamorphosis
18 What does the speaker's allusion to Tristan suggest about Rosamond?

She may be a woman of poor character

She may be a servant

She may not be very beautiful

She may be of higher rank than him
19 What does Chaucer's reference to Tristan suggest about how he wanted to be perceived?

He wanted to seem quintessentially British

He wanted to seem like a working-class poet

He wanted to seem influenced by French poetry

He wanted to seem totally original
20 What is galantine?

A type of fish

A type of sauce

A type of sickness

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

Bitter, satirical

Humorous, silly

Frustrated, aggressive

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

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

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

Her lack of interest makes him angry, because she has been stolen by another man

Her lack of interest doesn't affect him, because he enjoys being in love
23 Which of the following is NOT a figure for Rosamond?

Galantine

Shrine

Crystal

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

The speaker is wounded by his love for Rosamond, but only seeking her out can heal him

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

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

The speaker compares himself to Tristan, even though Tristan was famously uninterested in love
25 Which literary device does NOT appear in "To Rosamond"?

Apostrophe

Metaphor

Allusion

Repetition

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