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.
Related Mcqs:
- What lesson does Hare’s adventure involving a tall man with a cane attempt to teach the Winnebago people ?
A. Flattery will get you no where
B. Don’t put of for tomorrow what you can do today
C. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
D. Boasting shows weakness and will lead to bad things - At the end of Hare’s adventure with the headless bodies how does he turned them into “fast-fish.” ?
A. The headless bodies served Hare fish.
B. The headless bodies tried to abuse people so they were turned into ’fast-fish’ as a punishment.
C. The headless bodies liked to eat fish.
D. The headless bodies were actually creatures who evolved from fish so they were simply returned to their primordial state - According to “Hare’s Adventure”, how does he get his “burnt buttocks” ?
A. His buttocks was scorched by the sun which he had caught in a trap
B. Grandmother burned him with a hot poker for being so mischievous
C. Hare caught his own tale on fire trying to cook himself some dinner
D. He was born that way - How did increased lay participation in religious life impact monasteries ?
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 - 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 - ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written by_______________?
A. Blake
B. Byron
C. Tennyson
D. Walter Scott
