In Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women, how many legends are there?

Related Mcqs:

1. This group of Native Americans left behind a legend about creation using pictographs_____________?

   A. Apache
   B. Delaware
   C. Sioux
   D. Inuit

2. The Manitou is a great god in this legend ?

   A. Gilgamesh
   B. Colba
   C. Odysseus
   D. Walum Olum

3. Which of the following is not an example of Arthurian legend ?

   A. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae
   B. Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love
   C. Marie de France’s Lanval
   D. Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur

4. Professor Hammer argues that in Hart Crane’s poem “Legend,” Crane introduces himself to his readers. The poem opens with the lines: “As silent as a mirror is believed/ Realities plunge in silence by …/I am not ready for repentance;” according to Professor Hammer, Crane’s refusal to repent is an assertion of which of the following ?

   A. His political views
   B. His will to imaginative freedom
   C. His will to sexual freedom
   D. Both B and C

5. In her essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” what does Hélène Cixous suggest for women ?

   A. Women should write for and about themselves in order to counter phallocentric texts.
   B. Women should write, but they should do so only within the existent male canon.
   C. Women should primarily dedicate themselves to studying women’s literature from the past.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

6. Which of the following advice is offered to women in Acrene Wisse ?

   A. Anchoresses should live in a dwelling attached to a church.
   B. Anchoresses should avoid gossip.
   C. Anchoresses should avoid men.
   D. All of these answers

7. Which of the following women is widely considered the first feminist ?

   A. Margery Kempe
   B. Catherine of Siena
   C. Thecla
   D. Christine de Pizan

8. Why do most historians think monasticism appealed to medieval women ?

   A. it provided women with the opportunity to protect their own property
   B. it provided women with a place to nourish their intellectual growth
   C. it allowed women to exercise political authority in their communities
   D. All of the Above

9. In “The Monk” what event does NO represent the theme of entrapment of women ?

   A. Antonia’s death
   B. Matilda’s dressing as Rosario
   C. Agnes’s admittance to the convent
   D. The magic mirror

10. Which contemporary discussions on women’s rights did Tennyson’s The Princess address ?

    A. the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
    B. the debate on women’s suffrage
    C. the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the establishment of the first women’s college in London
    D. the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power