Works: Of which works are the following statements true?

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This work was written in French

Book of the City of Ladies

This work is pervaded by a sense of sin

Confessions

Part of The Divine Comedy

The Inferno

This work presents the central doctrines of medieval Christianity-Roman Catholicism-especially doctrines of judgment

The Inferno

A play from the Middle Ages

Everyman

About a man called upon to die and give an account to God

Everyman

Based on Celtic vegetation myth

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

This work focuses on chivalry, courtly love, and noble characters

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Reads like a collection of source material

The Biography of the Prophet

Set during an epidemic of the Bubonic Plague

The Decameron

This work deals with a massive breadown in social and moral order

The Decameron

A story of two brothers with cheating wives

The Thousand and One Nights

A wonderful example of Fold Literature and how it develops

The Thousand and One Nights

One theme of this work is the frightening power of kings and rulers

The Thousand and One Nights

This is the only work of Arabic literature to become a permanent part of European and World Literature

The Thousand and One Nights

First great work in English literature

Beowulf

Only one manuscript of this work, the Cotton Manuscript, exists

Beowulf

Refers repeatedly to the biblical character Cain

Beowulf

The only manuscript of this work was almost lost in a fire in the 18th century

Beowulf

This poem is written in Anglo-Saxon or Old English

Beowulf

This work is a re-telling of history from a female perspective

Book of the City of Ladies

A prayer in the form of a spiritual biography

Confessions

The only detailed account of the childhood of a great man from antiquity

Confessions


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