A. That it is necessary to contain mad women

C. That men also are mad

D. That female madness is a serious obstacle to womens liberation

B. adultery

C. nobility

D. chastity

A. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.

C. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.

D. Their readers primary language was English.

A. The Dream of the Rood

C. Chaucers Legend of Good Women

D. Boccaccios Decameron

A. It is labyrinthine.

C. It is a Catholic structure.

D. It was built in the Middle Ages.

A. games

C. knightly tournaments

D. recitations by poets

A. Saint Patricks mission

B. the Battle of Hastings

C. the Fourth Lateran Council

A. It has bars on the window.

B. It is removed from the main area of the house.

C. It is locked.

A. the mystic usually works as a scribe

B. the mystic is primarily tasked with intellectual work within monasteries

D. the mystic uses a religious platform to promote equal rights for women

A. she was concerned about loss of property

B. she wanted to make a political statement against the Church

C. she said that the institution was too flawed

A. the idea that noble women are more similar to men than peasant women are

C. the notion that chastity is impossible for men

D. the idea that woman cannot be as educated as men

A. were only performed by men

C. depended entirely on literacy

D. were considered unimportant by mystics

A. The persistence of the past in the present versus the betrayal in the present of the paternal protector

C. The male Gothic versus the female Gothic

D. Plotted revenge versus random violence

A. invasions from barbarian tribes

C. financial deficits from increased military expenditures

D. falling birth rates

A. It represents the pollution of the ideal woman by foreign influences.

B. It represents a doubling of Queen Victoria by English women as they remake themselves in her image.

C. It represents the rise in psychological pathologies or madness in women in the late 19th century.

A. a Roman official

C. a story about love and adventure

D. a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire

A. the coronation of Henry II

B. the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine

C. King Johns seal of the Magna Carta

A. Norwegian

C. Spanish

D. Danish

A. translators of French romances

B. women who have chosen to live as religious recluses

C. knights preparing for their first tournament

D. courtiers entering the service of Richard II

A. charitable donations

B. pilgrimages

C. prayers on the sinners behalf

B. Lewiss use of a female pseudonym in the original edition

C. Ambrosios rape and murder of his sister

D. Lewiss choiceof a feminine literary genre

A. To encourage rational evaluation rather than arouse emotional reactions

B. To emphasize the importance of character development over action

D. To support the growth and development of machinery in the 18th century

A. Terror involves uncertainty and obscurity.

B. Horror is only a sense of the sublime.

D. Terror contracts the soul.

A. Religion is race-neutral.

B. Jews represent sympathetic literary heroes.

D. Roman Catholicism was wrongfully dismantled in England by Henry VIII in the 16th century.

B. the Celts

C. the Normans

D. the Geats

B. meditation

C. wearing white clothing

D. weeping

B. the idea that God is separate from the human experience of love

C. the idea that community is essential to salvation

D. the concept of dualism of body and soul

A. the production of historical records increased

C. the lack of technology made it literally dark

D. it was a period of surging Roman institutions

A. authors

B. teachers

C. scribes

A. To make the reader feel distaste for supernatural themes

C. To generate feelings of intense pleasure

D. To make the reader dislike modern society

B. twelfth

C. tenth

D. eleventh

A. it is the most important part of Ancrene Wisse

B. it includes issues that pertain to the heart

C. it is part of the anchoress inner self

A. Julian of Norwich

C. Catherine de Pizan

D. Catherine of Siena

A. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.

B. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.

C. Their readers primary language was English.

A. it is the most important part of Ancrene Wisse

B. it is part of the anchoress inner self

D. it includes issues that pertain to the heart

A. piety

C. education

D. justice

B. 9th century

C. 10th century

D. 12th century

A. Saint Jeromes translation of the Bible

B. Boethiuss Consolidation of Philosophy

C. Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People

A. As a technique that became popular after the invention of the printing press

B. As a term associated only with religious written literature

D. As a device used to describe the flaws in the oral tradition

A. He provides a way for Victorian men to blame their actions on women.

C. He threatens to spread his madness to women.

D. He protects womens chastity and virginity.

A. Margery Kempe

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. Sir Thomas Malory

A. As a necessary control

C. As a path to redemption

D. As a model for contemporary police work

A. The Other

B. The fallen world

C. The sublime

A. Caedmon

B. Sir Thomas Malory

C. John Gower

B. Revelations of Divine Love

C. The Wooing of Our Lord

D. Orison to an Almighty God

A. The hand symbolizes the danger of marriage.

C. The hand signifies the mysterious pull of the labyrinth.

D. The hand represents the superiority of the Enlightenment over medievalism.

A. As an apolitical horror story

C. As a commentary on Victorian England

D. As a novel ghostwritten by Perce Shelley

A. conversion to Christianity

B. banishment to Asia

C. mild melancholia

A. To make reference to the rise of personal responsibility in Victorian England for the care of the sick and insane

B. To represent the shift from the male Gothic villain to the female Gothic villain in the Victorian Gothic novel

D. To represent the expansion of Gothic literary spaces from only subterranean spaces to attics as well

A. The fear of dying

B. The fear of being buried alive

C. Life rituals with blood