The Legend of Good Women Quizzes

The Legend of Good Women Quiz 1

1 What work is Chaucer best known for?
To Rosamond

The Canterbury Tales

The Legend of Good Women

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

Strict rhyme schemes

Religious devotion

Allusions to classical and continental poetry
3 When was the Legend written?
1350-1400

1300-1350

1450-1500

1400-1450
4 What aspect of the Legend was most original?
Its gender politics

Its use of rhyme to tell a long story

Its use of iambic pentameter

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

Chaucer's reluctance to write

Its metrical form
6 Which of the following is NOT a trait shared by the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales?
Frame device

Iambic pentameter

Variety of storytellers

Collection of stories
7 What is the most well-known portion of the Legend?
The Legend of Cleopatra

The Prologue

The Legend of Ariadne

The Legend of Dido
8 What was the late fourteenth century like for literature?
There was good secular writing, but no serious religious writing

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

A high point of poetic creativity akin to the Elizabethan era

A low point with very few good writers
9 How was the Legend of Good Women most frequently encountered by its audience?
As an oral text memorized and passed on

As a written text read silently alone

As an oral text read aloud from a book

As a legend passed down between generations
10 Which of the following does Chaucer most extensively satirize in the Legend of Good Women?
The Heroides

The Golden Legend

The Aeneid

The Metamorphases
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?
Framed by waking scenes

Features allegorical figures

The dream features characters from classical mythology

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 Roman de la Rose

The Parliament of Fowls

The Canterbury Tales

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

Hypsipsyle

Lucrece

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

Theseus

Jason

Pyramus
16 What is the most EXPLICIT moral of the Legend?
Women are not faithful to their fathers

Love is self-destructive

Women are faithful lovers, while men are not

History is a literary construction
17 How does Chaucer portray himself in the Prologue?
As a scholar and poet

As a student of love

As an idle wanderer

As a womanizer
18 What from the waking world does Alceste resemble?
A book

A daisy

Chaucer's beloved

The English queen
19 Which work by Shakespeare does NOT feature a story also included in the Legend?
A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Rape of Lucrece

Pericles

Antony and Cleopatra
20 Why does Antony kill himself?
He wants to preserve his honor

He is mourning Cleopatra's death

He wants to escape Cleopatra

He has gone mad
21 What do the Legend of Cleopatra and the Legend of Thisbe have in common?
Both are about double suicides

Both are about kings and queens

Both are about women who are more faithful than their husbands

Both are about honor
22 How do the martyrs in the Legend differ from Christian female martyrs?
They follow personal ethical codes

They choose to die

They are married

They are portrayed as noble
23 How does Antony meet Cleopatra?
He has deserted the Roman army and fled to Egypt

He is on a long sea voyage and happens to land in Egypt

He has come to Egypt to conquer it

He is a servant in her court
24 Who is "Naso" in modern terms?
Ovid

Jesus

Chaucer

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

Wealth

Level-headedness

Beauty

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