A. Temperance
B. Silence
C. Order
D. None of the above
Related Mcqs:
- What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Benjamin Franklin ?
A. Mentor to other writers
B. Rewrote the autobiography
C. Self-made and
D. Both B and C - To Whom does Franklin say he is addressing his autobiography part 1 ?
A. Himself
B. Indians
C. His son, john
D. His son, William - chaucer’s franklin was guilty of which sin ?
A. Lust
B. Corruption
C. Theft
D. Gluttony - It was about this time that I conceiv’d the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection. I wish’d to live without committing any Fault at any time; I would conquer all that either Natural Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a Task of more difficulty than I had imagined. … I included under Thirteen names of Virtues all that at that time occurr’d to me as necessary or desirable, and annex’d to each a short Precept, which fully express’d the Extent I gave to its Meaning ?
A. Samson Occcum
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Mayflower Compact - What do most critics find notable about the virtues that Pizan highlights in her work ?
A. she values reason and activity instead of silence
B. she emphasizes practical rather than theological virtues
C. she does not mention traditional virtues like piety
D. All of the Above - Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
A. the short story
B. the heroic epic
C. the morality play
D. the romance - Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues ?
A. the short story
B. the heroic epic
C. the morality play
D. the romance - The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are__________________?
A. Friendship and benevolence
B. Bitterness and revenge
C. Hatred and jealousy
D. None of these - “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?
A. Samson Occcum
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Mayflower Compact - How does the following representative quotation from Brontë’s Jane Eyre reflect on Victorian social conventions? “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands” ?
A. It reiterates the class divisions that kept both men and women from social mobility.
B. It suggests that women were increasingly accepted as professionals.
C. It indicates that British society had become much more egalitarian.
D. It reveals the stern consequences of the Industrial Revolution.
