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
Related Mcqs:
- In Acrene Wisse, what is the author’s advice regarding priests ?
A. Priests should be used as examples of ecclesiastical life.
B. Priests should be avoided, because men are bad influences.
C. Priests should offer anchoresses their only connection to the outside world.
D. Priests should be honored, because men are naturally more spiritual. - Why was Acrene Wisse written in the vernacular language ?
A. English was a more commonly used language in the Church.
B. The audience was likely unable to read French.
C. Women were more educated, so they knew more languages.
D. The audience was partially lay-women with little knowledge of Latin. - In Acrene Wisse, the mission of the anchorite was justified through what purpose ?
A. To serve the church
B. To withdraw and meditate upon God
C. To pray
D. To preach - What is the significance of the phrase protecting the heart from Acrene Wisse ?
A. The phrase refers to anchoresses’ responsibility to defend other Christians.
B. The phrase suggests that women should safeguard their spirituality through total withdrawal from the world.
C. The phrase is considered one of the positive effects of prayer.
D. The phrase involves becoming a nunin order to escape the bad influence of men. - What is the function of Ancrene Wisse ?
A. paradox
B. affective piety
C. imagery
D. pathos - With which literary form is Ancrene Wisse most closely related ?
A. estate satire
B. medieval lays
C. conduct books
D. medieval allegory - Which of the following best characterize noble women in the Middle Ages ?
A. they were expected to fix problems in their husbands’ absence
B. they ran the household
C. they were expected to be religious role models
D. All of the Above - Which of the following women is widely considered the first feminist ?
A. Margery Kempe
B. Catherine of Siena
C. Thecla
D. Christine de Pizan - Which of the following women is most closely associated with monastic life ?
A. Marie de France
B. Hildegard of Bingen
C. Christine de Pizan
D. The Wife of Bath - Who wrote the following statement: “When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant” ?
A. Amy Lowell
B. Gertrude Stein
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Alice Walker
