Lesson 4.2.2.6

4.2.2.6 Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy Quiz: AQA English Literature A, Unit 2

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The 20 questions

  1. In what year was Carol Ann Duffy's Feminine Gospels published?

    • 1962
    • 2002
    • 1985
    • 1948

  2. Which role did Carol Ann Duffy hold from 2009?

    • Prime Minister
    • Poet Laureate
    • Director of the BBC
    • Chief Rabbi

  3. What is the main concern of Feminine Gospels?

    • The history of naval battles, from the Armada to Trafalgar and the wars with France
    • The economics of banking, including the rise of credit and the role of the central bank
    • The science of astronomy, including the study of planets, stars and the motion of comets
    • Women's experience and voice, often retold from biblical and mythic material

  4. Which literary tradition does Feminine Gospels draw on?

    • Gothic horror, a genre of fear that features haunted castles and mysterious events
    • Restoration comedy, a genre of wit and sexual intrigue written after the monarchy returned
    • Biblical and mythic narrative
    • Naval epic, a long poem about the voyages and battles of sailors at sea

  5. What does the word "gospels" in the title suggest?

    • Good news or accounts of life, here given a feminine perspective
    • A school timetable that lists the subjects taught in each lesson across the week
    • A form of trade contract that sets out the terms and prices agreed between merchants
    • A type of military march played by bands at the head of troops on parade through towns

  6. Which concept describes a poet's retelling of a traditional story from a new perspective?

    • Pastoral idealisation
    • Epic catalogue
    • Revisionism
    • Blank verse

  7. Which contemporary movement shapes Duffy's themes of gender and voice?

    • Mercantilism
    • Monarchism
    • Feminism
    • Imperialism

  8. Why is the collection's post-2000 date significant?

    • It means the poems were written in the Middle Ages, long before the printing press
    • It means the poems are translations from older works written in a foreign language
    • It places the poems within a contemporary period with later concerns
    • It means the poems predate the Bible and tell stories from ancient myth and legend

  9. Which literary device is most evident in Duffy's use of direct, conversational speech?

    • Epic simile
    • Iambic pentameter
    • Colloquial voice
    • Caesura

  10. Which concept describes the interplay between personal and public experience in Duffy's poems?

    • The personal as political
    • The king as god
    • The empire as family
    • The public as private

  11. Evaluate: how does reworking religious narratives enhance a poem's effect?

    • It proves religion has no place in literature, since the poems are wholly secular
    • It challenges established authority and gives new meaning to familiar stories
    • It makes the poems less interesting to readers who expect a familiar and safe story
    • It removes all sense of tradition from the poems, leaving only private invention

  12. Which term describes a poem's use of a female speaker's perspective?

    • Persona
    • Epilogue
    • Refrain
    • Prologue

  13. What is a dramatic monologue?

    • A poem in strict Greek metre, which follows the rules of classical quantity closely
    • A poem in which a single speaker addresses a silent listener
    • A poem that lists historical events in order, from the earliest records to the present
    • A poem written for a theatre company to perform on stage before a paying audience

  14. Which kind of contemporary concern might a reader link to Duffy's poems?

    • Imperial taxation, including the duties levied on goods traded across the empire
    • Naval tactics, including the handling of fleets and the timing of attacks at sea
    • Agricultural subsidies, including the payments made to farmers for planting certain crops
    • Gender equality and women's agency

  15. Which term describes a poem's use of irony to undercut a received idea?

    • Lament
    • Elegy
    • Subversion
    • Consolation

  16. Which feature of the collection makes it suitable for a Modern times study?

    • Its focus on medieval battles, with knights, castles and sieges across the kingdom
    • Its engagement with post-2000 social and gender issues
    • Its focus on Roman history, with its emperors, legions and public monuments in the city
    • Its focus on colonial trade routes, with ships carrying goods between distant ports

  17. Which term describes the study of how language shapes social power?

    • Phonology, the study of the sound systems used in a language and their patterns
    • Palaeography, the study of ancient writing and the handwriting of earlier centuries
    • Critical discourse analysis
    • Lexicography, the practice of compiling dictionaries and recording word meanings

  18. What does the specification's theme of gender suggest for reading Duffy?

    • Reading the poems for how identity and power are constructed
    • Reading the poems as purely formal exercises that ignore their subject and their speakers
    • Reading the poems as naval records of voyages, storms and the logs kept aboard ship
    • Reading the poems as scientific reports that record measurable facts about the natural world

  19. Which literary term describes a poem that reinterprets a myth for a modern audience?

    • Monody
    • Retelling
    • Lampoon
    • Panegyric

  20. Which concept describes the relation between a text and the social conditions that produced it?

    • Historicism
    • Deconstruction
    • Semiotics
    • Structuralism

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