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Week 10: Gesta Romanorum: Jovinianus

Background | Background Quiz | Starting Assumptions | Resources
Vocabulary | Etymology | Grammar
Reading Overview | Quiz: English
| Quiz: Latin | Latin Composition
Discussion Questions | Checklist | Perseus Dictionary | Perseus Tool


Background Quiz

You will take this quiz at the Blackboard course site. You may find it helpful to print this page out and choose your answers before logging on to Blackboard to take the quiz. You may take the quiz as many times as you like; your most recent score is what will be recorded in the gradebook. The quiz will be available until Tuesday midnight.


1. Arabian Nights
2. Canterbury Tales
3. Decameron
4. Conference of Birds
5. Directorium Humanae Vitae
6. Gesta Romanorum
7. Kalila wa-Dimnah
8. Metamorphoses
9. Panchatantra
10. Seven Sages of Rome
A. Sufi story collection by Attar
B. ancient Sanskrit story collection
C. Arabic translation of the Panchatantra
D. stories told to save man accused of rape
E. Chaucer's English story collection
F. stories told by Scheherezade to save her life
G. Ovid's mythological poem
H. Latin translation of Kalila wa-Dimnah
I. Latin tale collection compiled from many sources
J. "10-day" collection of stories by Boccaccio

Modern Languages 4970 / MRS 4903: Medieval Latin. Spring 2003 Online Course at the University of Oklahoma. Visit http://www.ou.edu/online/ for more info.
Laura Gibbs, University of Oklahoma - Information Technology © 2003.  laura-gibbs@ou.edu. Last updated: December 29, 2002 7:12 PM