A. Most professional scribes found it difficult to write in Medieval Latin.
B. The spoken language tended to take precedence in areas where the Church was weak.
C. Official documents were written in spoken language.
D. All of the above
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following factors contributed to literature becoming a profitable business ?
A. Commercial and public lending libraries were established in order to provide for an enlarged reading public
B. Education reform increased literacy, thus creating a demand for commercial and public lending libraries.
C. A new aesthetics of valuing literature for its own sake emphasized reading for pleasure.
D. all of the above - In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature ?
A. 1798
B. 1779
C. 1795
D. 1789 - Why was Acrene Wisse written in the vernacular language ?
A. English was a more commonly used language in the Church.
B. The audience was likely unable to read French.
C. Women were more educated, so they knew more languages.
D. The audience was partially lay-women with little knowledge of Latin. - Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular speech to________________?
A. Explain how African Americans could not learn standard English
B. Make his written inaccessible to white audiences
C. To encourage feelings of pride in African American readers
D. Challenge American stereotypes about race - This approach provides a universalistic approach to literature and identifies a reason why certain literature may survive the test of time. It works well with works that are highly symbolic.What approach has this advantage ?
A. Mimetic
B. Psychological
C. Historical/Biographical
D. Mythological/Archetypal - Which of the following is a common element of vision literature ?
A. The themes usually involve life after death
B. A character’s body is separated from his soul
C. A guide leads the narrator on a spiritual journey
D. All of the above - Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?
A. geology
B. evolution
C. discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances
D. all of the above - Which of the following discoveries, theories, and events contributed to Victorians feeling less like they were a uniquely special, central species in the universe and more isolated ?
A. geology
B. evolution
C. discoveries in astronomy about stellar distances
D. all of the above - Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
A. the India Mutiny in 1857
B. the Boer War in the south of Africa
C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865
D. all of the above - Which of the following contributed to the growing awareness in the Late Victorian Period of the immense human, economic, and political costs of running an empire ?
A. the India Mutiny in 1857
B. the Boer War in the south of Africa
C. the Jamaica Rebellion in 1865
D. all of the above
