A. The Hundred Years War
B. The Great Schism
C. The Black Plague
D. All of these answers
Related Mcqs:
- In what way does the Gothic novel of the 18th century differ from the modern English novel that began to emerge in the 17th century and flourished in the 18th century ?
A. The focus on the middle and working classes
B. The consideration of the sensibilities of the protagonists
C. Plots taken from everyday life
D. The exploration of cultural taboos - Which of the following sixteenth-century works of English literature was translated into the English language after its first publication in Latin ?
A. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
B. William Shakespeare’s King Lear
C. Thomas More’s The History of King Richard III
D. Thomas More’s Utopia - Which of the following characters from “The Canterbury Tales” might represent the rising middle class of the 14th century ?
A. The merchant
B. The knight
C. The prioress
D. The plowman - Theodor Adorno’s “Culture Industry Reconsidered” further examines the notion of the “culture industry” and suggests which of the following about the “culture industry ?”
A. It destroys notions of high and low culture and replaces it with mass culture.
B. It is an industry in the sense that its aim is to standardize aesthetic taste and value.
C. It is a radical rethinking of mass culture in that it promotes the values of high culture and attempts to eradicate more popular forms of expression.
D. Both A and B - “When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?
A. Samson Occcum
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Mayflower Compact - What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homer’s lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?
A. human reverence for the classics
B. the belief that the English were direct descendants of the ancient Greeks
C. pride for the vernacular language
D. a and c only - The Jacobean era succeeds the ___________and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period ?
A. Elizabethan era
B. English Reformation
C. England
D. Tudor period - Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law ?
A. tenth
B. twelfth
C. thirteenth
D. fourteenth - Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law ?
A. tenth
B. eleventh
C. twelfth
D. fourteenth - In Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale,” why would the miller’s determination to speak following the knight appear unsettling to the 14th century audience ?
A. The knight had not finished his tale.
B. The miller did not ask politely.
C. A member of the clergy should have spoken next.
D. The miller was far beneath the knight in social order, so the miller should have deferred to the person who ranked above him.
