Answer:
1. Italian Stories ⇒ Decameron
2. Chaucer ⇒ Canterbury Tales
3. First "actual" short stories ⇒ 19th century
4.Old Testament stories ⇒ Jonah and Ruth
5. New Testament stories ⇒ Parables
I'm pretty sure the answer is the third one!
1 telling
2 to see
3 to take
4 smoking
5 going
6 to interrupt
7 having
8 (I think you had a typo and it should say stay?) to stay
9 to go
10 being
