world lit final exam

A griot is

A West African storyteller

A juli is the same as ___

A griot

A bard is

A european storyteller

Sunjata is the story of Sunjata Keita, the prince who founded ____

West Africa's greatest empire, the Mali empire

Misogyny is the____

hating of women

Dalilu is another word for

Magic

Malinke is a _____

language

According to the griot who told the tale of Sunjata, Paris was built by _____

God

Sologon is

The youngest sister of the buffalo woman

A ______ is an animal that does not exist in real life that is in the Popol Vuh

Plumed serpent

What language is the Popol Vuh written in originally?

Quiche language, Roman alphabet

What is the land of the dead in the Popol Vuh in?

Xibalba

In the Popol Vuh, what is the first food?

Corn

What is the name of the older brother in 1001 nights?

Shahrayar

What is the name of the younger brother in 1001 nights?

Shahzaman

What does Shahzaman discover when he goes to tell his wife goodbye?

His wife in bed with a kitchen boy

What does Shahzaman do when he finds his wife with another man?

Kills them both

Where is Shahzaman about to leave for before he discovers his wife's infidelity?

To see his brother

Why does Shahrayar think his brother is sad?

Homesickness

What does Shahzaman witness while Shahrayar is hunting? How does Shahzaman feel after he sees this?

That Shahrayar's wife is cheating on him with slaves. He feels relieved

What is Shahrayar's reaction when Shahzaman tells him what he saw?

Disbelief

What is Shahrayar and Shahzaman's plan to catch Shahrayar's wife?

Pretend to go hunting and then sneak back in to the palace

What do Shahrayar and Shahzaman decide to do after they catch Shahrayar's wife?

They decide to leave and wander the world until they find someone who is more misfortunate than them

What do the brothers find on their journey?

A demon carrying a locked glass chest

What is inside the demon's chest?

A woman

What does the woman from the chest demand of the brothers after her demon husband falls asleep? What will she do if she doesn't get what she wants?

Sex, or she will have her demon husband kill them

What does the demon's wife take from all of her lovers she slept with to spite the demon? How many does she have after the brothers?

A ring. She has 100

What does Shahrayar swear he will do after killing his wife and slave girls?

Marry a woman, sleep with her, and then kill her the next day

Who does Shahrayar have kill his brides?

His viser

Who does the viser beg not to marry Shahrayar?

Shahrazad, his eldest daughter

What story does the viser tell Shahrazad to warn her how her actions will bring her harm?

The story of the ox, the donkey, and the merchant

What is the downside to the merchant's ability to speak to animals?

If he tells anyone, he will die

What does the donkey tell the ox to do?

Pretend to be sick

What happens when the ox pretends to be sick?

The donkey has to replace him while he works all day

What is the lesson of the ox, the donket, and the merchant?

The donkey's miscalculation caused him harm, the same way Shahrazad's mistake may cause her death.

Why does the merchant laugh?

Because he overheard the donkey talking to the ox after the ox faked being sick

Why wont the merchant answer his wife?

If he tells the truth he'll die

What does the merchant's wife threaten if he doesn't tell her?

To leave him

What does the rooster tell the dog in the tale of the merchant and the merchan't wife?

That the merchant should beat his wife into submission

What does the viser threaten to do if Sharazad doesn't give up on marrying the king?

He will beat her like the merchant beat his wife

Who does Sharazad ask King Shahrayar?

To let her say goodbye to her sister

How does Sharazad keep King Shahrayar from killing her?

By telling him stories

Who is Dante's guide?

virgil

What beasts does dante encounter in canto i?

leopard, she wolf, lion

Who is Beatrice?

The woman that Dante was in love with on Earth, who died early

why is charon so angry about dante being in hell?

dante is living

what is written above the gate to hell?

"Abandon all hope ye enter here"

Who assigns each soul to its place in Hell?

Minos

Who makes up the hoarders and wasters within the 4th circle of hell?

priests, cardinals, popes

Why are Francesca and Paolo in Inferno?

they committed adultery

What do Francesco and Paolo blame for their adultery?

Reading lancelot

What do the squanderers and hoarders have in common?

they were not prudent with the goods of Fortune

Does the fallen angel initially let virgil and dante into Dis?

no

Who does Dante and Virgil encounter while waiting for someone to come open the gates? What do they do?

the 3 furies, they try to get medusa to turn dante into stone

What lets Dante and Virgil into the city of Dis?

A messenger from heaven

How do the demons and sinners react to the messenger?

they flee

What does Dante accidentally imply to his friend Guido's father?

That guido is dead

What does Farinata explain about the shades in hell?

They can see the future but not the present

What are the 3 subcircles of the 7th circle of hell?

Violence against others, against self, and against God

What are the last 2 circles of hell devoted to punishing?

fraud

What is the difference between circle 8 and circle 9?

The 8th circle is 'normal fraud,' whereas the 9th circle is specifically betrayal

Why is ursury a sin in Dante's Inferno?

Because they're making money off interest, not off of actual work

What is the punishment for those violent towards their neighbors?

Boiling in blood

What is different about Florence?

It has its own culture and history

Where is the home base of the roman catholic church?

Vatican City

Who runs the papal states? What were they the last to do?

run by the pope; last section to join unity

What did the black guelphs do?

strongly supported the popes

What did the white guelphs do?

Said should have sovereignty; did not agree fully with the pope

What does vito lova mean?

the new life

What did Dante write in?

Italian

What was anything formal or official written in during Dante's time period?

Latin

What are canticles

Parts

How many canticles are there in the divine comedy?

3

What do people do in purgatory within Dante's Purgatorio?

Purge their sin before heaven, pray

What are Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso called altogether?

The Divine COmedy

What does the Virgin Mary do in Inferno?

Authorizes virgil to lead dante

What is a tercet?

A stanza of 3 lines

What form do all 3 canticles in the divine comedy use?

Terzarima

The tercets in the divine comedy all use _______.

Rhyming tercets

What does malebolge mean?

evil ditches

How is hell structured in Dantes Inferno?

Like a cone, with each circle of hell being smaller than the one above it. Otherwise known as a malebolge

What is simony?

the buying and selling of church offices

What did Master Adam do?

He made coings that were worth less than they appeared

Who is Sinon?

Greek who tricks the Trojans into taking the wooden horse into the city

Who is Ciacco?

A florentine who makes prophecy about the political future of Florence

Who is ugolino chewing in circle 9?

Ruggeri

Who is Bertrand de Born?

A knight and trubbador; carries his head around in hell

Who was satan chewing on in Inferno?

Judas, Brutus, Cassius

What does translation mean literally?

to take across

What does transliteration mean?

the activity of taking a word in a writing system and turning it into a word in another system

What does sumaworo do to sunjata?

takes advantage of him

Who are the 2 gods in the popol vuh?

heart of sky and plumed serpent

What is a frame tale?

a larger story containing smaller ones

Sunjata was originally in ___ but put in ____

verse, prose

Rituals are _____ and ___ people

important, connect

People of the mande culture are so connected they can _______________________

trace their ancestors back to the Mali empire

Griots ___________ in the epic of Sunjata

play an important role

Is sunjata an islamic/muslim epic?

No

Sunjata is the foretold ____

heir

The people who live in manden are the _____

Mande people