Background
Petrarch/Ronsard
Boccaccio
Cervantes
Voltaire
100

This is what Renaissance means

Rebirth


100
This is the type of poem that Petrarch is known for.

Sonnet


100

This is Federigo's prized possession.

A falcon

100

Don Quixote is an example of this type of satire

Parody
100

Voltaire viewed himself as an enemy of this

Authority

200

Renaissance was marked by a return to this

Greek and Roman philosophy

200

Shifts in thought in Petrarch's sonnets are marked by shifts in this.

Volta or rhyme scheme

200

This is the story's intended moral

Good character is its own reward

200

This is the type of story that Cervantes is mocking

Courtly romance or knight-errant

200

Voltaire wrote mainly while he spent time where?

England

300

This is where the Renaissance was born

Italy

300

Ronsard's "To Helene" is a call for his reader to do this.

Carpe Diem or seize the day

300

The climax of the short story is a great example of this type of irony.

Dramatic

300

This is what Quixote mistakes for giants

Windmills

300

Pangloss and his teaching is meant to mock this.

Traditional education

400

Renaissance era Humanism placed value on this

Logic and reason

400

Petrarch pictures the woman he loves as this

A white doe

400

This is why Monna desires to have Federigo's  prized possession.

To make her son well

400

Quixote makes his helmet visor out of this

Cardboard

400

Candide is not permitted to be with Cunegonde for this reason.

He cannot trace his lineage back far enough to ensure his parentage.
500

This is the belief that science and logic are the source of truth.

Rationalism

500

A Petrarchan poem is split into an eight line unit called this and a six line unit called this

An octet and sestet

500

This is how Boccaccio's short story is really a story within a story

Nobles in hiding from the plague taking turns telling stories each night.

500

This is Quixote's unwitting squire

Sancho Panza

500

This is the main societal criticism of Chapter 2

Senseless brutality and violence of war

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