A. Many people were unable to understand Church texts written in Latin.
B. Many people were unable to understand the language of the Mass.
C. Many people took issue with the Pope’s inordinate wealth and power.
D. All of the above
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following best represents Dante’s criticism of the medieval Church ?
A. He thought the popes failed to live up the requirements of their offices.
B. He disbelieved in the Christian doctrine.
C. He believed that most of the teachings were incorrect.
D. He thought that the popes were the only successful part of the Church. - Which of the following statements best characterizes the work of early monks in shaping future medieval church life ?
A. They were extremely charismatic.
B. They wanted to move from the basics of Christian faith to a full Christian life.
C. They were promoters of the monastic life.
D. All of these answers - In the medieval Church, devotional acts _______________?
A. cancelled out punishment due to sin
B. depended entirely on literacy
C. were considered “unimportant” by mystics
D. were only performed by men - Fill in the blank. Martin Luther nailed his _____________ to a church door in Wittenberg, accusing the Roman Catholic Church of heresy upon heresy?
A. Paradise Lost
B. 95 Theses
C. The Bible
D. Piers Plowman - 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” - Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word ?
A. Disintrestedness
B. Intresedness
C. Purification
D. Civilization - What is the difference between traditional literary criticism and post-New Criticism literary theory ?
A. Traditional literary criticism is mainly focused on exploring gender issues.
B. Traditional literary criticism only examines pre-20th-century literary texts.
C. Traditional literary criticism focused on tracking influences and textual allusions and considering the historical contexts of literary texts.
D. Traditional literary criticism attempted to consider the psychological aspects of literary texts. - A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism ?
A. Marxist criticism
B. Reader-response criticism
C. Psychoanalytic criticism
D. New Criticism - In which important medieval city was Dante born ?
A. London
B. Rome
C. Florence
D. Sorrento - Which of the following most accurately explains the Bretons influence on medieval literature ?
A. The Bretons roots were in the Celtic cultural tradition.
B. Breton literature had a profound effect on medieval literature in England.
C. The Bretons represented prominent forces in the Norman invasion.
D. All of these answers
