A. it made them more valuable sources of information
B. it made them seem irrelevant since they separated religious life from worldly life
C. it made them more important since there were few literate lay worshipers
D. it made them symbols of the Church’s progress
Related Mcqs:
- Religion played a pivotal part in Elizabethan life. Protestants, Catholics, Puritans, and other religious groups jostled for power and survival in uncertain times. In 1559, an Act of Parliament was passed which determined the “supreme governor” of all things spiritual. Who was it ?
A. The Pope in Rome
B. Each man was his own supreme governor
C. The Archbishop of Canterbury
D. Queen Elizabeth I - The French Revolution had a tremendous impact on which of the following aspects of British life ?
A. Politics
B. Literature
C. Relations with France
D. All of the above - The adventure of another lay/Just as it happened, I’ll relay ?
A. The line has obvious rhyme and meter, and the opening words suggest a story of adventure and excitement.
B. The strong alliteration creates rhythm that accentuates the adventurous spirit.
C. The line seems to frame a story with plot complications.
D. The line alludes to a poem with religious undertones. - Who were lay mystics ?
A. people who attempt to found their own religious orders
B. people who reject asceticism and contemplation
C. people who attempted to contact God without the intervention of an established religious order
D. people who were formally tied to religious orders - What is a “lay” in medieval literature ?
A. a short lyrical poem
B. a story of a saint’s life
C. a type of book of hours
D. a devotional text used by anchoresses - From which lay is the quote “she had no equal in the kingdom” taken ?
A. “Lanval”
B. “La Fresne”
C. “Bisclavert”
D. “Equitan” - How did lay literacy affect traditional devotional practices ?
A. people stopped reading the Bible
B. people increasingly turned to visual art in order to learn about religion
C. people could be religious without the help of a clergy
D. interest in the Church history declined rapidly - Which of the following characterize(s) a lay ?
A. geographical unity
B. episodic content
C. octosyllabic couplets
D. All of the Above - For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick’s paintings is described as follows: “A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth.” What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?
A. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
B. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.
C. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.
D. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion. - ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written by_______________?
A. Blake
B. Byron
C. Tennyson
D. Walter Scott
