Quiz 20 Flashcards
(30 cards)
how many days did Pope Gregory 13th suppress in his reform of the calendar in 1582?
10 days
In what year did the Anglican Church (& England) finally adopt the Gregorian calendar?
1752
Why is it probable that Cervantes was born on September 29th?
His name is mugiel and it is saint Michaels day
Why did Cervantes [apparently] have to leave Spain in 1569?
For fighting with a man named Antonio and fear of being arrested
In what “crucial battle” did Cervantes receive thee gunshot wounds?
Lepanto
what job did Cervantes get with the navy in 1587?
collecting supplies for the invisible Armada
What event in 1588 signaled the beginning of Spain’s decline and disillusionment?
Armadas defeat against England
As Spanish power and prosperity declined, what segments of its society became stigmatized and “suspect”?
Converscos and Moriscos
T/F: the narrator of Don Quixote introduces himself as a sterile and uncultivated wit?
True
Undermining “the ill-founded edifice” of what, says the author, is the basic purpose of the book?
what is constituted by those books of chivalry
what did Dom Quixote add to his name to make “very plain his lineage”?
de la Mancha
what “terrible thought assailed” Don Quixote?
he was never formally dubbed a knight
” and so when he caught sight of the inn, it at once became” what in Don Quixote’s eyes?
a castle
According to the innkeeper, what “indispensable” thing, assumed by writers of romance, did knight need besides extra shirts & ointment?
money
What did the muleteer do with Don Quixote’s armor?
removed it from the trough and tossed it away
From what book did the innkeeper read as he dubbed Don Quixote a knight?
the accounting book
“by the order of what”, as Don Quixote tells the boy, will the farmer obey him?
knighthood
According to the curate, for what shall they have “a public auto de fe?
to burn the books
As what does Don Quixote interpret the windmills to be?
Giants
With what was Don Quixote “nourishing himself”?
Savorous memories
According to the narrator, what “nation is known or its lying propensities”?
Arab Nation
T/F: Don Quixote spoke so earnestly that Sancho actually came to believe the dust clouds are from approaching armies?
True
Sancho hears nothing except what?
the bleating of sheep
What job/crime does Don Quixote say “is most necessary in a well-ordered state”?
being a pimp
