Intellectual Traditions: Quiz Edition

Beowulf is Freisian for "war wolf."

Augstine's mother converted both him and his father to Christianity. What was her name?

The end always justifies the means.

Rectitude, Justice, and Reason help Christine create the City of Ladies.

Beowulf is from Gaetland, also know in modern times as?

What is the correct way to spell the main female character's name in Thousand and One Nights?

What is Saint Jerome the patron saint of?

Who is depicted in this picture?

The Wife of Bath married her last husband for money and land.

How many times does the Green Knight swing his axe at Gaiwain?

What would Jerome have called his infamous letters? (In his native tongue of Latin.)

The Norton Antholgy of World Literature uses who's translation of Beowulf?

Montaigne is describing the practices of the Tupinambá tribe.

According to Dante, the worst sinners are those who committ adultery.

What is a simoniac? (There are many in Dante's Inferno.)

The shadows in Plato's Allegory of the Cave are cast by the sun.

At what age was the Wife of Bath first married?

What kind of poems are Ovid's Art of Love?

What are the Greek letters on Lady Philosophy's gown?

Augustine of Hippo was originally from where?

What is the idea of Providence?