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2. Who wrote The Decameron?

3. Giovanni Boccaccio

4. How many TOTAL stories are there in the Decameron?

5. 100 – 10 people times 10 days

6. What is the setting of the Decameron? Why are stories being told?

7. 10 young people flee the big city in Italy for the countryside because they are afraid of the plague

8. Explain how the storytelling contest actually works.

9. Each day a different leader is selected, and that leader picks the theme for the day.

10. What is the (somewhat ironic) theme for the day of stories when Federigo’s Falcon is told?

11. All the stories are supposed to have happy endings

12. Why is Federigo living on a small farm?

13. He is poor – spend all his money trying to impress a woman

14. What is the name of the woman Federigo loves and lives near?

15. Monna Giovanna

16. Why does the woman of the story ask Federigo for his falcon?

17. Her son is dying and wants the bird as a pet

18. Why isn’t Federigo able to give his falcon as a gift when asked?

19. He served it as a meal

20. What is the ‘happy ending’ of the story?

21. Federigo ends up marrying the woman he has always loved

22. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court was written by ____ in the late 1800s.

23. Mark Twain

24. ______ is a series or cycle of poems about Arthur and the other key characters in Arthurian Legend

25. Idylls of the King

26. ____ by T.H. White is similar to Le Morte d’Arthur. Part 1 of the book focuses on Arthur’s childhood training with Merlin.

27. The Once and Future King

28. The third part of Le Morte d’Arthur, “The Ill-Made Knight,” focuses on what storyline?

29. Lancelot and Guinevere’s affair

30. Who wrote Idylls of the King?

31. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

32. What event marks the beginning of the Middle Ages in Britain?

33. The Norman Conquest

34. ____ is a class system, social system, military system, etc.

35. Feudalism

36. Explain the development of cities during the Middle Ages (reasons why)

37. Opportunities for work/profit outside the traditional structure – guilds, trade, etc.

38. Who was Thomas Becket?

39. Bishop of Canterbury who was murdered by the king’s soldiers in his church

40. What was responsible for the deaths of at least 30% of the European population during the 1300s?

41. Black Death / Black Plague

42. Knight who is often in conflict with Lancelot

43. Sir Gawain

44. Knight who finds the Holy Grail and in the movie Excalibur throws the sword back into the lake

45. Percival

46. Arthur’s foster brother, son of Sir Ector

47. Kay

48. The son of Lancelot who fulfills prophecies about a knight who helps bring peace to Camelot

49. Sir Galahad

50. Guinevere’s father who accepts Arthur as king and has his lands invaded as a result

51. Leondegrance