Some examples from this set of practice questions
1.
What are the key issues in The Wife of Bath\'s Prologue?
Answer: - auctoritee: mysogynistic religion and culture - experience: life as a woman - maistrie: who gets to rule their own life
2.
What are the three narrative strands in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
Answer: - Gawain beheads GK, who survives. A year later, he would be beheaded - Temptation episode: series of events that will determine his fate - Gawain meets GK again to receive the return blow
3.
The Wife of Bath is revealed in three stages. Which ones?
Answer: - General Prologue - The Wife of Bath\'s Prologue - The Wife of Bath\'s Tale
4.
What do we learn from the portrait in The Wife of Bath?
Answer: - Merchant: woman of her own right - generous, but short-tempered - likes to travel - likes company - sanguine temperament
5.
The Wife of Bath is presented from three angles. Which ones?
Answer: - through the eyes of Chaucer in the General Prologue - through a form of self-confession in the autobiographical Wife of Bath\'s Prologue - through a form of self-projection into the narrative of the Wife of Bath\'s Tale
6.
What does Trawthe consist of?
Answer: - fraunchise - generosity - fela3shyp - love - clannes - purity - cortaysye - courtesy - pité - compassion
7.
What are the thematic cycles of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
Answer: - Strangers at court - Court scenes followed by wilderness - hunts - bedroom scenes - confessions
8.
Why could the Fox and the Wolf be an epic?
Answer: - in medias res - mock-hero/anti-hero - journey into underworld - epic machinery - epic identification scene
9.
Why could the Fox and the Wolf be a satire?
Answer: - ridicules stupidity - parody of romance: love triangle in a theological argument - parody of fabliau: duper duped by engin
10.
What do we know about the Pearl/Gawain poet?
Answer: Thorough knowledge of forms of symbolism & interest in religious values
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