A. The desire to travel in search of wisdom with the social conventions
B. The folly of earthly things with the wisdom of heaven
C. The speaker’s spiritual regression with the increasing trend of Christian conversions
D. The desire for a more advanced world with stagnant social progress
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following epic themes are invoked in The Wanderer ?
A. Exile
B. Abandoned mead-halls
C. Loneliness
D. All of these answers - Which of the following accurately describes the way in which the comitatus ethic is represented in Beowulf, The Seafarer, and The Wanderer ?
A. As a mutually beneficial relationship between rulers and warriors
B. As an economic system of rewards used to ensure warriors reliability
C. As a pre-feudal power structure based on the distribution of economic and military resources
D. All of these answers - What is the significance of the line: Fate is established! in The Wanderer ?
A. The line describes the optimistic attitude of the speaker.
B. The line suggests that the speaker is comfortably settled.
C. The Wanderer is a poem about fatal endings.
D. The line suggests that fate plays an irrevocable role in human affairs - How does The Cross, as speaker, portray Jesus in The Dream of the Rood ?
A. As the suffering Christ
B. As the ransom God demands for the sins of humanity
C. As a special Jewish teacher
D. As the heroic noble warrior - Which speaker said that “God is more nearer to us than our own soul ?”
A. Julian of Norwich
B. Margery Kempe
C. Catherine of Siena
D. Catherine de Pizan - Identify the speaker of these lines: “sweet Jesus, Jesus love” ?
A. Julian of Norwich
B. Margery Kempe
C. Catherine of Siena
D. Christine de Pizan - Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
A. Boer War
B. Second World War
C. Korean War
D. First World War - What Renaissance text uses martyrology as a device to historicize the conflict between the true Church and the false Church in England ?
A. “Euphues”
B. “Paradise Lost”
C. “Paradise Regained”
D. “Acts and Monuments” - Which of the following patterns of intonation, is used to indicate that the speaker implies things which are not explicitly expressed____________?
A. The falling
B. The rising
C. The fall__rise
D. None of the above - Aristotle felt that ethos was established by a speaker or writer by convincing the audience that ?
A. the author or speaker was of good mind and character.
B. the author or speaker was emotionally involved in the topic at hand.
C. the author or speaker has provided proper logic and evidence in support of his topic.
D. the author or speaker maintained the appropriate critical distance from the topic.
