A. justice
B. piety
C. sexuality
D. education
Related Mcqs:
- With which of the following genres is The Romance of the Rose most closely associated ?
A. medieval lay
B. hagiography
C. mysticism
D. dream vision - Which best summarizes Christine de Pizan’s reaction to The Romance of the Rose ?
A. she objected to the treatment of secularism as evil
B. she applauded its promotion of female education
C. she attacked it as misogynistic
D. she praised the objectification of women - In The Romance of the Rose, which text does Guillaume de Lorris cite as his inspiration ?
A. The Book of Margery Kempe
B. “Revelations of Divine Love”
C. “The Wooing of Our Lord”
D. The Art of Courtly Love - In Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man on the Dump,” one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following ?
A. Artifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the American cultural context
B. The broken dreams of the American émigré community in Paris
C. Old poetry
D. The failed attempt of modern poetry - In The Divine Comedy, what do many critics believe Beatrice allegorically represents ?
A. Natural light
B. Revelations
C. The light of grace
D. All of the above - How do most critics believe Joyce’s exile affected his use of language ?
A. After his exile, he only used one “voice” in his works
B. After his exile, he disliked the intricacy of language
C. After his exile, he never used split narratives
D. After his exile, he used a mixture of languages and linguistic traditions in his works - Formalist critics believe that the value of a work cannot be determined by the author’s intention. What term do they use when speaking of this belief ?
A. The pathetic fallacy
B. The intentional fallacy
C. The affective fallacy
D. The objective correlative - Which of the following are characteristics of a medieval romance ?
A. Episodic French and German poetry
B. Resemblance to an epic
C. Supernatural themes involving dragons and monsters
D. All of these answers - How is the lai similar to a medieval romance ?
A. Both include stacked tales in a single sequential narrative.
B. Both have courtly love as their central theme.
C. Both are designed in an episodic manner.
D. Both are usually intended to be sung as hymns. - Which of the following would most likely be the theme of a medieval romance ?
A. The story of an English village’s conversion to Christianity
B. A first-person story of the Norman invasion
C. The adventure of a knight who rescues a maiden
D. A poem that features courtly love but denounces supernaturalism
