This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Medieval > Medieval Women Writers – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Medieval Women Writers Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How did the printing press alter medieval culture? A) It improved communication between societies. B) It increased the amount of printed material available to the masses. C) It created a more unrestricted circulation of texts. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 2. With which literary form is Ancrene Wisse most closely related? A) Estate satire. B) Medieval lays. C) Conduct books. D) Medieval allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conduct books. 3. Why did Catherine of Siena refuse to marry a husband? A) She wanted to make a political statement against the Church. B) She was concerned about loss of property. C) She said that the institution was too flawed. D) She claimed she was already married to God. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She claimed she was already married to God. 4. Which speaker said that "God is more nearer to us than our own soul? " A) Catherine of Siena. B) Catherine de Pizan. C) Julian of Norwich. D) Margery Kempe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Julian of Norwich. 5. In the context of Medieval literature, what does the term "mystical marriage" mean? A) It is a mystical union between two people. B) It is a union between anchorites. C) It is a spiritual union with God. D) It is a union supported by the Church. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is a spiritual union with God. 6. Which writer(s) is/are associated with mysticism? A) Richard Rolle. B) Walter Hilton. C) Julian of Norwich. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 7. With which genre is "The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity" most closely associated? A) Romance. B) Hagiography. C) Medieval lay. D) Courtly love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hagiography. 8. Which of the following inventions is associated with the rise in literacy? A) The letter press. B) The rudder. C) The triptych. D) The flail. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The letter press. 9. Which of the following characterized court life in the Middle Ages? A) Recitations by poets. B) Knightly tournaments. C) Games. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 10. Which of these female writers was least likely to have been literate? A) Julian of Norwich. B) Catherine de Pizan. C) Heloise. D) Margery Kempe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Margery Kempe. 11. How did the fall of Roman imperialism affect Britain? A) It led to the rise of Germanic cultures. B) It created a conflict Christianity and paganism. C) It led to the end of Roman forms of governing. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 12. What is affective piety? A) A term associated with oral transmission. B) A dramatic demonstration of faith. C) A literary device used in estates satire. D) An important trait of the medieval lay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A dramatic demonstration of faith. 13. How did courtly literature characterize its heroines? A) They always represented the evil side of love. B) They were sources of inspiration for heroic action. C) They were never chaste or pious. D) They were examples of mystical unions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They were sources of inspiration for heroic action. 14. Which of the following couples exemplify/exemplifies courtly love? A) Lancelot and Guinevere. B) Dante and Beatrice. C) Arthur and Guinevere. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 15. Which of these female writers is most closely associated with tears? A) Catherine de Pizan. B) Catherine of Siena. C) Margery Kempe. D) Julian of Norwich. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Margery Kempe. 16. What do most critics believe the "rose" of The Romance of the Rose symbolizes? A) Piety. B) Justice. C) Sexuality. D) Education. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sexuality. 17. When did the Roman Empire formally legalize Christianity? A) The 7th century. B) The 3rd century. C) The 8th century. D) The 4th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The 4th century. 18. What is hagiography? A) The literary form linked closely with courtly love. B) A method of creating a mystical union. C) A term associated with oral transmission. D) The writing and studying of saints' lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The writing and studying of saints' lives. 19. Which literary device is most important structurally in The Book of the City of Ladies? A) Assonance. B) Allegory. C) Litotes. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allegory. 20. What was a Lollard? A) A member of a sect that was considered heretical. B) An illiterate anchoress. C) A female mystic. D) A hero in a courtly romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A member of a sect that was considered heretical. 21. In what way(s) did the legalization of Christianity impact medieval culture? A) Architecture came to be influenced by the Christian church. B) Art revolved around Christian themes. C) The Church became instrumental in the formation of laws. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 22. Kempe's acts of devotion included: A) Meditation. B) Wearing white clothing. C) Weeping. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 23. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 24. What is "scholasticism" as it relates to the medieval era? A) A period in which philosophers attempted to reconcile philosophy with religion. B) A period of educational activity. C) A period associated with the Carolingian Renaissance. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 25. What is "the gender fallacy" ? A) The idea that noble women are more similar to men than peasant women are. B) The problem of a "man writing as a woman". C) The idea that woman cannot be as educated as men. D) The notion that chastity is impossible for men. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The problem of a "man writing as a woman". 26. Identify the speaker of these lines: "sweet Jesus, Jesus love" A) Catherine of Siena. B) Christine de Pizan. C) Julian of Norwich. D) Margery Kempe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Catherine of Siena. 27. Which provides the best example of a medieval allegory? A) The Book of Margery Kempe. B) "An Orison to Almighty God". C) "The Wooing of Our Lord". D) The Romance of the Rose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Romance of the Rose. 28. Who wrote The Rules of Courtly Love? A) Christine de Pizan. B) Catherine of Sienna. C) Andreas Capellanus. D) Chretien de Troye. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chretien de Troye. 29. Which text(s) is/are associated with mysticism? A) "Book of Hours". B) The Romance of the Rose. C) "Revelations of Divine Love". D) The Canterbury Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Revelations of Divine Love". 30. What is the function of Ancrene Wisse? A) Pathos. B) Paradox. C) Affective piety. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 31. In the Middle Ages, nuns also performed which of the following roles? A) Teachers. B) Scribes. C) Authors. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 32. To whom were The Lais of Marie de France dedicated? A) King Arthur. B) King Alfred. C) King Henry. D) King Richard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) King Henry. 33. Which topic(s) is/are explored in The Lais of Marie de France? A) Superstition. B) Adultery. C) Jealous fathers. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 34. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 35. Which of the following is an example of female hagiography? A) "Revelations of Divine Love". B) "Orison to an Almighty God". C) "Acts of Thecla". D) "The Wooing of Our Lord". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Acts of Thecla". 36. In the Medieval era, women most commonly worked as ..... A) Retailers. B) Domestic servants. C) Spinners. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 37. In the Middle Ages, which class of people was most likely to be literate? A) Working class men. B) Monks. C) Working class women. D) Peasants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monks. 38. Which of the following women is widely considered the first feminist? A) Margery Kempe. B) Christine de Pizan. C) Catherine of Siena. D) Thecla. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christine de Pizan. 39. Which of the following women is most closely associated with monastic life? A) Marie de France. B) Christine de Pizan. C) The Wife of Bath. D) Hildegard of Bingen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hildegard of Bingen. 40. Which is true of medieval property laws? A) Most medieval women had some property. B) Married women could hold property once they had children. C) Married women could hold property without their husband's consent. D) Widows could hold property. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Widows could hold property. 41. In The Romance of the Rose, which text does Guillaume de Lorris cite as his inspiration? A) The Art of Courtly Love. B) The Book of Margery Kempe. C) "Revelations of Divine Love". D) "The Wooing of Our Lord". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Art of Courtly Love. 42. In the Middle Ages, how did society treat prostitution? A) Prostitution was considered problematic but legal. B) The Church opposed prostitution on moral grounds. C) Prostitution was considered a solution to epidemics of rape. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 43. With which text is the theme of "Christ as mother" most closely associated? A) "An Orison to Almighty God". B) "The Wooing of Our Lord". C) "Revelations of Divine Love". D) "The Book of Margery Kempe". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Revelations of Divine Love". 44. From which lay is the quote "she had no equal in the kingdom" taken? A) "La Fresne". B) "Bisclavert". C) "Equitan". D) "Lanval". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Equitan". 45. When did the Norman Invasion take place? A) 10th century. B) 11th century. C) 12th century. D) 9th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 11th century. 46. Which is/are a theme(s) of "The Acts of Thecla? " A) Courtly love. B) Female literacy. C) Praise of chastity. D) Peasant life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Praise of chastity. 47. Which best summarizes Christine de Pizan's reaction to The Romance of the Rose? A) She praised the objectification of women. B) She applauded its promotion of female education. C) She attacked it as misogynistic. D) She objected to the treatment of secularism as evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She attacked it as misogynistic. 48. In Medieval times, who were "femme soles" ? A) Educated women. B) Women who operated their own businesses without men. C) Anchorites who lived in seclusion. D) Women who were villains in stories of courtly love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Women who operated their own businesses without men. 49. How was Christine de Pizan a unique female writer for her time? A) She was the only woman to work in the oral tradition. B) She was the first female mystic. C) She wrote in order to support herself. D) She was the only woman to write medieval lays. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She wrote in order to support herself. 50. In what centuries did mystical women writers primarily work? A) 8th and 9th centuries. B) 9th and 10th centuries. C) 10th and 11th centuries. D) 14th and 15th centuries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14th and 15th centuries. 51. Which is true of childbirth in the Middle Ages? A) It was normally supervised by a midwife. B) It was typically dangerous for mother and infant. C) It was normally done without medical equipment. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 52. Which of the following themes/motifs was/were often found in literature of "courtly love" ? A) Nobility. B) Adultery. C) Chastity. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 53. What was a virago? A) A heroine who used female attributes to become a saint. B) A saint who was NOT the humble, pious, and chaste figure she was expected to be. C) An asexual female saint. D) An anchorite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An asexual female saint. 54. Which event(s) characterized the Middle Ages? A) Invasions from barbarian tribes. B) Financial deficits from increased military expenditures. C) Falling birth rates. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 55. Which of the following was the most copied book of the Middle Ages? A) The Bible. B) The Art of Courtly Love. C) "Book of Hours". D) The Romance of the Rose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Bible. 56. Who were the troubadours? A) Poets from France and Italy. B) Men who wrote only in the mystical tradition. C) The authors of conduct books. D) Heretics persecuted by the Church. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poets from France and Italy. 57. What is an anchoress? A) A religious teacher in the medieval era. B) A male anchorite. C) A medieval female hermit. D) A woman who rejects the support of the community because she feels it is sexist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A medieval female hermit. 58. Which of the following typify the oral-formulaic? A) The repetition of words. B) The use of epithets with character's names. C) An episodic structure. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 59. Which is true of medieval women? A) They were not allowed to divorce their husbands. B) They were not allowed to own a business without permission. C) They were not allowed to inherit land if they had any brothers. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 60. The Book of the City of Ladies articulates which of the following themes: A) The value of practical virtues over traditional feminine virtues. B) The merit of women. C) The lack of truth in men's stereotypes about women. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 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