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Mrs. Hawkins - 10th Grade Literature
Literature Test 11 (Units 13-15)
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Literature
10th Grade
04/22/2013

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scholasticism
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the practice of mixing Greek philosophy with Scripture
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Cynic
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stressed independence from worldly needs and pleasures
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Epicurean
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emphasized sensual pleasures and materialism
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Stoic
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emphasized reason and indifference to emotion
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The girl Pyramus loved
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Thisbe
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Wrote "The Entrance to Hell"
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Donte
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Wrote Metamorphoses
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Ovid
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Bohemian reformer martyred in 1415
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John Huss
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Wrote about the Neronian persecution of Christians
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Tacitus
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Wrote the Aeneid
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Virgil *"The Wooden Horse"*
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Wrote the Book of Martyrs
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John Foxe
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Believed in justification by faith
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Martin Luther
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Wrote Lives
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Plutarch

p. 392 Unit 12

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Wrote Faith
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John Wycliffe
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Wrote "The Freedom of a Christian"
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Martin Luther
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The son of Daedalus
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Icarus
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the ferryman at river Acheron
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Charon
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believed his sweetheart had been killed by a lioness
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Pyramus
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warned his fellow Trojans about a wooden horse
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Laocoon
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tricked theĀ  Trojans into taking the horse inside their city walls
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Sinon
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symbolizes divine revelation in The Divine Comedy
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Beatrice
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symbolizes human reason in The Divine Comedy
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Virgil
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the Trojan warrior who narrates "The Wooden Horse"
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Aeneas
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the queen of Carthage
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Dido
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Where did the Renaissance, or rebirth of culture that began toward the end of the Middle Ages, begin?
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Italy
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Where was Dante from?
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Italy
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Where was Martin Luther from?
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Germany
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The painter of The Fall of Icarus
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Pieter Bruegel
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The painter of Moses
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Michelangelo
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The painter of The Gate of Hell
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Gustave Dore'
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The painter of St. Nicholas Eve
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Jan Steen
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The painter of The French Ambassadors
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Hans Holbein
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