A. Sentimentalism

B. Ghosts

C. Horror

A. spinners

B. domestic servants

D. retailers

A. the Battle of Hastings

C. the Norman Conquest

D. the Battle of Agincourt

A. Westminster Palace

B. Tower of London

D. St. Georges chapel at Windsor

A. the Fourth Lateran Council

B. Saint Patricks mission

C. the Battle of Hastings

A. a devotional text used by anchoresses

B. a type of book of hours

C. a short lyrical poem

A. Each owner upends the prevailing law of the land.

C. The owners of each had mistresses.

D. On the outside they look like homes, but on the inside they are prisons

A. Louis XIV

B. Henry V

D. Henry II

A. the Danes

B. the Normans

D. the Geats

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Margery Kempe

C. Sir Thomas Malory

A. conversion to Christianity

B. being buried alive

D. banishment to Asia

B. It suggests that redemption is possible through penitence.

C. It offers a positive alternative to the excesses of the Catholic Church.

D. It dispels the anti-Semitism associated with the Gothic novel.

A. the Battle of Hastings

C. the Battle of Agincourt

D. the Norman Conquest

B. It predicts the upheaval of society.

C. It includes apocalyptic themes.

D. It represents society as relatively stable.

A. Beckfords Vathek

B. Walpoles The Castle of Otranto

D. Stokers Dracula

A. education

B. love

C. chastity

A. working class men

C. peasants

D. working class women

A. she was her husbands property, but could not be mistreated under law

B. she was more legally powerful than her husband

C. she was considered equal to her husband

B. The plot

C. Emilys mind

D. Emilys misfortunes

B. The uncommon nature of the event

C. The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate

D. The reference to ancestral halls

A. The support for the British class system

C. The belief in British superiority to foreign countries

D. The concern for the sanctity of legal inheritance

A. Chrtien de Troyes

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. Marie de France

A. Its protagonist is at risk for sexual transgression.

B. It explains strange phenomena.

D. The theme of imprisonment is prominent.

A. it ended the Churchs role in the creation of books

B. it opened up new opportunities for women to learn

D. it led to a sudden increase of women as scholars and authors

B. Imperialism

C. The Woman Question

D. Theories of Darwinian evolution

A. Lancelot and Guinevere

B. Dante and Beatrice

C. Arthur and Guinevere

B. it increased the amount of printed material available to the masses

C. it improved communication between societies

D. it created a more unrestricted circulation of texts

A. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.

C. The common people were still essentially pagan.

D. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic.

A. Cousin Henry and Julia

B. Writing

D. Reading

B. Many protagonists mothers are absent.

C. Gender issues are often overlooked.

D. Womens issues are interrogated.

A. Edward III

B. Richard II

D. none of the above

A. King Richard

B. King Alfred

D. King Arthur

A. Bisclavert

B. La Fresne

D. Lanval

B. the merit of women

C. the value of practical virtues over traditional feminine virtues

D. the lack of truth in mens stereotypes about women

A. a method of oral transmission

B. a type of literature concerned with the behavior of anchorites

D. a type of early literature produced solely by medieval women writers

A. hagiography

C. medieval lay

D. mysticism

A. Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.

B. Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.

D. Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed

A. She is excluded from the novels violent disturbances.

B. The heroine is robbed of psychological complexity by focusing only on horror.

C. She is excluded from the general sense of isolation in the novel.

A. Of or relating to anything Medieval

B. Of or relating to anything rude, uncivilized, or ignorant; devoid of culture and taste

D. Of or relating to a particular style of architecture

A. Andreas Capellanus

B. Christine de Pizan

D. Catherine of Sienna

B. translators of French romances

C. knights preparing for their first tournament

D. courtiers entering the service of Richard II

A. Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed

C. Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.

D. Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.

A. a term associated with oral transmission

C. a literary device used in estates satire

D. an important trait of the medieval lay

A. The vampire represents the future.

B. The vampire represents a beloved father who seeks to gather together all the women and young men (sons).

D. The vampire represents sexual impotence.

B. Richard II

C. Richard III

D. Alfred

A. 1300

B. 1343

D. none of the above

A. it was normally supervised by a midwife

B. it was typically dangerous for mother and infant

D. it was normally done without medical equipment

A. 1357

B. 1378

D. none of the above

A. A hero who is usually defined by his fatal attraction to women

C. A character who is essentially kind but performs a horrible act by accident

D. A hero who is known for being aristocratic, moody, and secretive

A. She made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago.

C. She was a virgin martyr.

D. She sought unsuccessfully to restore classical paganism.