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Pilgrim’s Progress is firmly situated in the Puritan, or Reformed Protestant, tradition, which has historically featured the use of catechisms, or teaching aids in a question-and-answer format, to instill basic doctrines in children and adults. In this case, while staying in Palace Beautiful, Christiana’s children are quizzed in their catechism knowledge by Prudence, one of the women who lives there. The content of the questions and answers isn’t the most interesting thing about this passage (Prudence catechizes each of Christiana’s four sons, starting with basic questions for the youngest and progressing to harder ones for the eldest); it’s that Prudence…