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- How did increased lay participation in religious life impact monasteries ?
MCQs: How did increased lay participation in religious life impact monasteries ?
it made them more valuable sources of information
it made them seem irrelevant since they separated religious life from worldly life
it made them more important since there were few literate lay worshipers
it made them symbols of the Church’s progress
MCQs 1: Which of the following themes do both Julian of Norwich and Catherine of Siena explore ?
the idea that community is essential to salvation
the concept of dualism of body and soul
the concept of a sensual God
the idea that God is separate from the human experience of love
MCQs 2: In the Middle Ages, which class of people was most likely to be literate ?
MCQs 3: What were “conduct books” ?
books that established standards of behavior for women
books that were primarily intended to teach men how to treat their wives
books that conformed with strict standards of behavior
books that recounted historical events in the medieval era
MCQs 4: How did courtly literature characterize its heroines ?
they were never chaste or pious
they always represented the evil side of love
they were sources of inspiration for heroic action
they were examples of mystical unions
MCQs 5: Which is/are a theme(s) of “The Acts of Thecla ?”
MCQs 6: What is the authorship controversy as it relates to Heloise and Abelard ?
the critical debate about the verification of events in the letters
the idea that Abelard wrote all of the letters
the issue of whether there is a “female voice” in the letters
All of the Above
MCQs 7: Which of the following women is widely considered the first feminist ?
MCQs 8: Which provides the best example of a medieval allegory ?
The Book of Margery Kempe
“The Wooing of Our Lord”
“An Orison to Almighty God”
The Romance of the Rose
MCQs 9: What is “scholasticism” as it relates to the medieval era ?
a period in which philosophers attempted to reconcile philosophy with religion
a period of educational activity
a period associated with the Carolingian Renaissance
All of the Above
MCQs 10: In the context of Medieval literature, what does the term “mystical marriage” mean ?
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