How many legends are there in Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women?
Correct Answer:
A. 9
Explanation:
The correct answer is 9. Although Geoffrey Chaucer originally intended to write twenty stories for The Legend of Good Women, the work remains unfinished. The surviving text consists of a prologue followed by nine legends detailing the lives of ten virtuous women from antiquity: Cleopatra, Thisbe, Dido, Hypsipyle, Medea, Lucretia, Ariadne, Philomela, Phyllis, and Hypermnestra. Because Hypsipyle and Medea are combined into a single section, the total number of legends in the completed portion of the poem is nine.
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