Significant Quotes

Question 1

“A women wants the selfsame sovereignty / Over her husband as over her lover / And master him; he must not be above her” (author/title/period)

Answer 1

Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” of the Middle Ages

Question 2

“Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote/ The droughte of March hath perced to the roote” (author/title/period)

Answer 2

Chaucer’s “General Prologue” of the Middle Ages

Question 3

“Radix malorum eat cupiditas” or “The love of money is the root of all evil” (author/title/period)

Answer 3

Chaucer’s “The Pardoners Tale” of the middle ages

Question 4

“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.” (author/title/period)

Answer 4

Homer’s “The Odyssey” of Ancient Greece

Question 5

“And if you find I’ve lied, from this day on call the prophet blind” (author/title/period)

Answer 5

Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” of Ancient Greece

Question 6

“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were not allowed to move their heads?” (author/title/period)

Answer 6

Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” of Ancient Greece

Question 7

“Mother dear, I can’t finish my weaving / You May blame Aphrodite soft as she is she has almost killed me with love for that boy” (author/title/period)

Answer 7

Sappho’s “It’s no use” of Ancient Greece

Question 8

“I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace” (author/title/period)

Answer 8

Pericles’ “Funeral Oration” of Ancient Greece

Question 9

“Of arms and the man I sing” (author/title/period)

Answer 9

Virgil’s “The Aeneid” of the Roman period

Question 10

“Muse, how it all began. Why was Juno outraged? What could wound the Queen of the Gods with all her power? (author/title/period)

Answer 10

Virgil’s “The Aeneid” of the Roman period

Question 11

“Love is a finder, always” (author/title/period)

Answer 11

Ovid’s “The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe” in The Metamorphoses of the Roman period

Question 12

“A man must conquer pride, not kill it” (author/title/period)

Answer 12

“The Seafarer” translated by Burton Raffel during the Anglo-Saxon period

Question 13

“Do not give way to pride. For a brief while your strength is in bloom but it fades quickly: and soon there will follow illness or the sword to lay you low.” (author/title/period)

Answer 13

“Beowulf” of the Anglo-Saxon period (author unknown)