9. Match the titles of literary works with their summaries.

1. Written in mid-14th century Florence, this collection frames one hundred stories told by ten nobles who fled the plague. It mixes tragic, comic, and moral tales, showing how people coped with fear and loss while entertaining one another.     
2. Composed in late 14th-century England, this allegorical poem follows a humble labourer through visions of society, salvation, and corruption. It reflects the unrest and labour tensions left by the Black Death.     
3. Written around 1387–1400, this English frame narrative gathers pilgrims on their way to this city located in the shire of Kent. Through their tales, the writer portrays a society reshaped by plague, social mobility, and clerical criticism.     
4. First published in 1866 in Russia, this psychological novel portrays poverty in St. Petersburg and a student who murders a pawnbroker. It explores guilt, redemption, and the crushing effects of destitution.     
5. Written in 1840, this Russian novel presents the fragmented adventures of Pechorin, a young officer stationed in the Caucasus. Through a series of encounters—love affairs, duels, travels, and betrayals—the narrative reveals the restless spirit of a man unable to find meaning in life. The author portrays Pechorin as one of literature’s first “superfluous men”: intelligent and perceptive, yet deeply cynical and destructive to himself and others. The Caucasian setting highlights contrasts of freedom, fatalism, and cultural conflict. The novel, blending romanticism with realism, offers a psychological portrait of alienation in early 19th-century Russia.     
6. Published in 1722, though set during London’s plague of 1665, this work blends fact and fiction in diary form. It documents fear, quarantine, and the struggle of ordinary citizens.     
7. Released in 1827, this Italian historical novel dramatizes plague in Milan during the 1630s. Two lovers are thwarted by war, famine, and pestilence, yet hope endures.     
8. Written in 1842, this Gothic allegory shows nobles retreating from plague to a castle, only to be struck down by a spectral figure of death. It symbolises inevitability.     
9. Published in 1947, this French novel stages a plague outbreak in Oran, Algeria. Characters embody moral choices—solidarity, denial, faith—in an allegory of human resilience and resistance.     
10. Released in 1985, this Colombian novel intertwines love and epidemic. It explores passion, fidelity, and endurance in a Caribbean town afflicted by cholera.     

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Tick the literary works that can be considered related to the Black Death directly or based on the immediate social consequences

Select the works that relate to plague epidemics (the Black Death or later plague outbreaks). Check ALL that apply.

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