She got an injury from a brutal fight with her husband.
100
BONUS QUESTION: List as many characteristics and conventions of an classical epic poem as you can
Epic Hero; The fate of the hero is tied in with the fate of his people; Epic Journey; Begins with a statement of theme; Invocation to the muse; In media res; Epic similes The setting of the poem is ample or vast in scale and may be worldwide or even larger; The action involves superhuman deeds in battle; Supernatural elements/Divine intervention.
100
Polonius' children
Laertes and Ophelia
100
in what verse form did Milton choose to write Paradise Lost?
Unrhymed iambic pentameter (blank verse)
200
In Paradise Lost, Adam identifies his chief flaw or weakness to Raphael. What is this flaw?
Passion for Eve
200
What news does the ghost of King Hamlet reveal to his son?
King Hamlet's brother murdered him to take over the kingdom.
200
In Dante's Inferno, what keeps the Ninth Circle of hell covered in ice? Why is it covered in ice?
Lucifer's wings. Furthest from the warmth of God's love.
200
The member of the clergy given the most admiring, flattering description in the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales is the —
Parson
200
The Wife of Bath claims she is an expert in
Marriage
300
Theory of ethics maintaining that the basis of judgment differs according to circumstances, events, persons. A value system that refuses to endow any single set of values with ultimate authority.
Relativism
300
Polonius believes that _____ is the cause of Hamlet's rash actions.
Love for Ophelia
300
How does the merchant in "The Story of the Merchant and the Demon" who accidentally killed the demon's son escape death one year after he pledges to return?
Three men offer stories to the demon in exchange for a portion of the man's guilt, and the demon is obligated to release him from his punishment.
300
"____, to tell thee how I hate thy beams that bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere, till pride and worse ambition threw me down." Who says this and what does he hate so much?
Satan, the Sun
300
In the Thousand and One Nights, what explanation does the demon's prisoner give the brothers for why she collects her lovers' rings?
The rings symbolize nothing other than proof that women can obtain whatever they desire
400
BONUS QUESTION: List all the epics we have studied this semester
Gilgamesh, Iliad, Odyssey, Ramayana, Beowulf, Dante's Inferno, Paradise Lost
400
As Adam and Eve leave Paradise, "hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow" (Book 12, line 648), what is their consolation?
They are comforted by their foreknowledge of the coming of Christ as Redeemer of mankind.
400
According to the Qur'an, What punishment is given to sinners who repent for their sins?
No punishment
400
In the Pañcatantra, most of the characters are
Animals
400
BONUS QUESTION: List all the frame narratives we have studied this semester
The Thousand and One Nights, The Pancatantra, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales
500
When the mother in The Loyal Mungoose sees the mungoose covered in blood, she feels:
Enraged: she thinks the mungoose has killed her beloved child
500
In the Decameron, what act prompts the marquis of Saluzzo to honor Griselda, his peasant wife, with the title of marchioness?
Her dignified grief when he informs her that he has put their children to death
500
Which language is associated with the development of literature in India's classical age?
Sanskrit
500
The Wife of Bath's 5th husband's name
Jenkin
500
The term Renaissance means "re-birth." What literary traditions did European Renaissance writers and thinkers focus on as part of this re-birth?