The Legend of Good Women Quizzes

The Legend of Good Women Quiz 1

By Claire Adler · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed August 08, 2022

1 What work is Chaucer best known for?

The Legend of Good Women

To Rosamond

The Canterbury Tales

Henry V
2 Which of the following is NOT a trademark of Chaucer's poetry?

Religious devotion

Strict rhyme schemes

Allusions to classical and continental poetry

Irony and satire
3 When was the Legend written?

1400-1450

1350-1400

1450-1500

1300-1350
4 What aspect of the Legend was most original?

Its use of iambic pentameter

Its gender politics

Its use of rhyme to tell a long story

Its allusions to classical mythology
5 Which of the following is NOT an aspect of the Legend that contemporary readers have found frustrating?

Its inconsistent tone

Its repetition

Its metrical form

Chaucer's reluctance to write
6 Which of the following is NOT a trait shared by the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales?

Iambic pentameter

Variety of storytellers

Collection of stories

Frame device
7 What is the most well-known portion of the Legend?

The Legend of Dido

The Legend of Ariadne

The Prologue

The Legend of Cleopatra
8 What was the late fourteenth century like for literature?

A low point with very few good writers

A high point of poetic creativity akin to the Elizabethan era

There were a few good poets, but not as many as earlier in the century

There was good secular writing, but no serious religious writing
9 How was the Legend of Good Women most frequently encountered by its audience?

As a legend passed down between generations

As an oral text read aloud from a book

As an oral text memorized and passed on

As a written text read silently alone
10 Which of the following does Chaucer most extensively satirize in the Legend of Good Women?

The Heroides

The Aeneid

The Metamorphases

The Golden Legend
11 Which of the following is true of ALL of the stories in the Legend?

All are borrowed from Ovid

All are about women who kill themselves

All are about unfaithful men

All end tragically
12 Which of the following is NOT a conventional attribute of dream-vision poetry?

The dream features characters from classical mythology

Features allegorical figures

Framed by waking scenes

The dream inspires a poetic work
13 Which of the following do Cupid and Alceste NOT mention in their accounts of Chaucer's previous work?

The Parliament of Fowls

The Canterbury Tales

The Roman de la Rose

Troilus and Cressida
14 Which heroine does not kill herself because she was abandoned?

Phyllis

Dido

Lucrece

Hypsipsyle
15 Which man does Chaucer refer to as "a man that can in love be true and kind"?

Aeneas

Pyramus

Jason

Theseus
16 What is the most EXPLICIT moral of the Legend?

Love is self-destructive

Women are not faithful to their fathers

History is a literary construction

Women are faithful lovers, while men are not
17 How does Chaucer portray himself in the Prologue?

As a student of love

As a womanizer

As an idle wanderer

As a scholar and poet
18 What from the waking world does Alceste resemble?

A daisy

Chaucer's beloved

A book

The English queen
19 Which work by Shakespeare does NOT feature a story also included in the Legend?

Antony and Cleopatra

The Rape of Lucrece

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Pericles
20 Why does Antony kill himself?

He wants to escape Cleopatra

He is mourning Cleopatra's death

He has gone mad

He wants to preserve his honor
21 What do the Legend of Cleopatra and the Legend of Thisbe have in common?

Both are about kings and queens

Both are about women who are more faithful than their husbands

Both are about honor

Both are about double suicides
22 How do the martyrs in the Legend differ from Christian female martyrs?

They follow personal ethical codes

They choose to die

They are portrayed as noble

They are married
23 How does Antony meet Cleopatra?

He has come to Egypt to conquer it

He is a servant in her court

He has deserted the Roman army and fled to Egypt

He is on a long sea voyage and happens to land in Egypt
24 Who is "Naso" in modern terms?

Ovid

Chaucer

Virgil

Jesus
25 Which of the following is NOT one of Dido's traits?

Level-headedness

Beauty

Power

Wealth

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