Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?

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1. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife ?

   A. Dante’s Divine Comedy
   B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
   C. The Dream of the Rood
   D. Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

2. In “Everyman,” which of the following provides the path to redemption in the afterlife ?

   A. Faith
   B. Time spent in prayer
   C. Donations made to the monastery
   D. Good deeds

3. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

4. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?

   A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
   B. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
   C. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.
   D. the wave of contempt for manuscripts that followed the beginning of printing in 1476.

5. Only a small proportion of medieval books survive, large numbers having been destroyed in______________?

   A. the Anglo-Saxon Conquest beginning in the 1450s.
   B. the Norman Conquest of 1066.
   C. the Peasant Uprising of 1381.
   D. the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s.

6. Who authored Il Cortigiano (The Courtier), a book that was highly influential in the English court, providing subtle guidance on self-display ?

   A. Cavalcanti
   B. Castiglione
   C. Pirandello
   D. Boccaccio

7. Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?

   A. Ben Jonson
   B. Aemilia Lanyer
   C. Samuel Daniel
   D. Mary Wroth

8. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?

   A. eugenics
   B. psychoanalysis
   C. phrenology
   D. all of the above

9. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentiethcentury thinker Sigmund Freud associated ?

   A. eugenics
   B. psychoanalysis
   C. phrenology
   D. anarchism

10. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ?

    A. Emily Dickinson
    B. Paul Dunbar
    C. John Greenleaf Whittier
    D. Walt Whitman