Quiz 19

Question 1

In Navarre’s view, in what might we best discern God’s truths in news reports or fantasy literature?

Answer 1

news reports

Question 2

T/F: From Navarre’s perspective in other stories: intelligence and virtue can, in fact, be found among the lower class

Answer 2

True

Question 3

T/F: As in Boccaccio’s Decameron, most of the stories in Heptameron have clear parallels in earlier literature

Answer 3

False

Question 4

T/F: Despite her nobility, some of de Navarre’s writings were officially condemned as heretical

Answer 4

True

Question 5

What’s the best way, according to Oisille, “Of delivering you from your boredom…”?

Answer 5

reading the holy scripture

Question 6

Who wrote the collection of 100 tales which Parlemente says are known by everyone?

Answer 6

Boccaccio

Question 7

In the stories to be told, “there was to be one difference.” What was that difference?

Answer 7

that they not write any story that was not true

Question 8

What did Amador choose to believe “would in the end bring his toils to a happy conclusion”?

Answer 8

time and patient waiting

Question 9

“Through the gift of” what was Amador provided with love and fortune?

Answer 9

virtue valor

Question 10

What had been Amador’s “sole anxiety”?

Answer 10

that Florida might reject love completely

Question 11

What does Amador ask Florida to be?

Answer 11

his true and faithful lady

Question 12

What did Florida begin to feel “that she had never felt before”?

Answer 12

stirrings within her heart

Question 13

After the death of the Infante of Fortune, Florida married a man “she would gladly have exchanged for” what?

Answer 13

death

Question 14

Florida “was almost at” what point?

Answer 14

to admit Amador as a sure and perfect lovers

Question 15

With Avanturada’s death, what does Amador lose besides a good wife?

Answer 15

All hope of continuing to be near Florida

Question 16

According to Amador, when is “that no sin may be imputed”?

Answer 16

when the heart and the body are constrained by the power of love

Question 17

According to Florida, what was “the foundation of this love” of hers for Amador?

Answer 17

virtue

Question 18

What was Florida “beginning to understand”?

Answer 18

the evil ways of men

Question 19

What “was the last thing she (Florida) wanted”?

Answer 19

to bring Amador harm

Question 20

By what does Amador say his efforts will not be frustrated?

Answer 20

Florida’s scruples

Question 21

According to Florid, what will she never again “believe it is to be found in any man”?

Answer 21

virtue

Question 22

T/F: Florida advises Amador to make amorous overtures to a marries woman

Answer 22

True

Question 23

According to Hircan, for what should Amador be criticized?

Answer 23

being a coward