World Literature Final Exam – Flashcards
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What is the title of the work that features tales told by seven young ladies and three young men who have retreated from plague-ravaged Florence to a beautiful country estate?
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The Decameron
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What is the title of "the major literary work of the Middle Ages"?
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The Divine Comedy
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What is the title of the work that "showed that a great work of literary art, equal to the great works of antiquity, can be created in the vernacular, providing the declaration of independence that made possible the various national traditions of post-medieval literature"?
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The Divine Comedy
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What is the title of the work that features tales told by pilgrims to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket?
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The Cantebury Tales
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What is the title of the work that "is both a heroic poem of dark magnificence and the most vivid account left to us of the social world and life experiences of the Germanic and Scandinavian peoples who overran the Roman empire"?
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Beowulf
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What is the title of the Arthurian romance that "is constructed from two originally separate narrative motifs, 'The Beheading Game' and 'The Exchange of Winnings'"?
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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What is the title of the "implicitly anti-Dantean work" that features the alternative title "Prince Galahalt"?
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The Decameron
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What is the work whose name means "The Recitation"?
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Koran
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What is the title of the sole work of Icelandic literature in your anthology?
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Thorstein the Staff-Struck
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What is the title of the "greatest of all" the Icelandic sagas?
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The Saga of Burnt Njal
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What is the title of the work that, "[b]y common consent [. . .] is regarded as the best" of the medieval morality plays?
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Everyman
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What is the title of the work in your anthology that includes the tale featuring a game of musical beds involving the characters Pinuccio, Adriano, Niccolosa, Niccolosa's mother, and Niccolosa's father?
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The Decameron
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What is the title of the work that features tales told by a young wife "employing her skills as a narrator to buy her life a day at a time"?
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The Thousand and One Nights
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What is the title of the work that "so far is the only work of Arabic letters to become a permanent part of European and, indeed, of world literature"?
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The Thousand and One Nights
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What is the title of the work that "is the foundational text for the European literary imagination"?
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The Divine Comedy
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What is the title of the work that "is the foundation of the French literary tradition"?
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The Song of Roland
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What is the title of the opening Sura of the Koran?
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Exordium
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What is the title of the work of which Sir Perceval is the main character?
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The Story of Grail
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Who wrote the work that features tales told by pilgrims to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket?
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Chaucer
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Who created the verse form known as terza rima, three-line stanzas rhyming aba bcb cdc and so on?
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Dante
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Who is the author of the tale in which a husband kills a nightingale by breaking its neck, then throws the dead bird at his wife "so that the front of her tunic was bespattered with blood, just on her breast"?
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Marie de France
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Who is the author of "the foundational text for the European literary imagination"?
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Dante
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Who "is the poet who endowed English literature with a status equal to that of the other European vernaculars-who in effect showed that it could become a world literature"?
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Chaucer
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Who "produced the first vernacular version of a classical epic, initiating a tradition that was to culminate in Milton's Paradise Lost"?
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Boccaccio
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Who received the revelations of the Koran?
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Muhammod
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Who was "[t]he first woman writer in French (at least so far as we know)"?
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Marie de France
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Who is the author of "the major literary work of the Middle Ages"?
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Dante
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Who is the author of the work that "showed that a great work of literary art, equal to the great works of antiquity, can be created in the vernacular, providing the declaration of independence that made possible the various national traditions of post-medieval literature"?
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Dante
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Who wrote the work that features tales told by seven young ladies and three young men who have retreated from plague-ravaged Florence to a beautiful country estate?
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Boccaccio
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Who is the author of the tale in your anthology that features the characters Gualtieri and Griselda?
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Boccaccio
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Who is the author of the romance in which the Grail appears "for the very first time in Western literature"?
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Chretien de Troyes
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Who is the writer whose "great legacy to Renaissance European literature is the Rime Sparse's language of self-description"?
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Petrach
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Who "set the standard for scholarship and pedagogy in the Western tradition" and "created the model of the tireless, curious, and non-dogmatic intellectual in pursuit of enlightenment"?
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Erasmus
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Who was "[t]he most famous and controversial political writer and theorist of his time [the Renaissance]—indeed, possibly of all time"?
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Mahiavelli
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Who was "Renaissance Italy's greatest poet"?
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Ariosto
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Who wrote the book that, more than any other, "shaped the ideal formulation of manners" for "the brilliant courts of sixteenth-century Europe"?
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Castiglione
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Who is the author of the Renaissance work that is "a collection of seventy stories organized into a series of ten tales told over seven days and framed by a larger narrative that reveals the storytellers' characters and relationships with each other"?
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Marguerite de Navarre
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Who is the writer who lent his name to an adjective that describes "humor that blends the lofty and low, elegant and grotesque, erudite and physical"?
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Rebelais
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Who was "[t]he first writer to ask 'Who am I?' and pursue the question with extraordinary honesty and rigor"?
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Montaigne
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Who is the writer who, by "having found a way to bring together concrete actuality and highly ideal values[, . . .] can be said to have created the first modern novel"?
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Cervantes
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Who is the writer whose "method of composing three-act plays with comic or serious subplots came to dominate Spanish drama well into the eighteenth century"?
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Lope de Vega
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Who is the writer whose "plays constitute the most important body of dramatic work in the modern world"?
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Shakespeare
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Who is the writer whose "poetic achievement [. . .] is generally regarded as the last flourishing of Christian humanism in Renaissance England"?
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Milton
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Who ends "one of his most philosophical poems" with the assertion "I see the better, but choose the worse"?
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Petrarch
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Who wrote the work than which "[no literary work more charmingly or memorably illustrates the Renaissance concept of 'serious play'"?
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Erasmus
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Who poses the question "Is it better to be loved than to be feared, or the reverse?"?
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Machiavelli
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Who wrote the work whose title hero "ultimately derives" from The Song of Roland and that "confers on the Este family a memorable role in the cultural achievement of Renaissance Italy"?
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Ariosto
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Who wrote the work that commemorates the court of Guidobaldo daMontelfetro, duke of Urbino?
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Castiglione
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Who is the writer whose brother, nephew, and grandson all reigned as kings of France?
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Marguerite de Navarre
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Who is the writer who published under the pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier?
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Rabelais
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Who, in his "most famous essay, Of Cannibals [. . .], compares the behavioral codes of Brazilian cannibals and those of 'ourselves' (Europeans) and concludes that 'each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice'"?
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Montaigne
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Who wrote the novel whose "initial and overt purpose was to satirize the romances of chivalry"?
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Cervantes
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Who wrote the play based on a peasant rebellion that took place in a "small pastoral village in the province of Córdoba"?
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Lope de Vega
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Who created the character than whom "no character in literature is more familiar to audiences around the globe"?
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Shakespeare
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Who, "[f]rom the first three chapters of Genesis, [. . .] forged twelve capacious books of epic verse, which he fleshed out with his vast knowledge of the classics, history, theology, and science"?
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Milton
