2. Which statement best describes a central idea in "Chaucer's Changing World?" A) Medieval society was egalitarian, and social rules and roles adapted to the needs of the individual members of each state.
B) Medieval society was very segmented and structured and each estate had a set of rules and expectations for its members.
C) Life for serfs and peasant was surprisingly secure. Landlords understood and appreciated the peasant's work and strove to protect the health and well-being of each worker.
D) The merchant class developed alliances with the clergy, and thereby assured the rise of the merchant class and preserved the authority and wealth of the church.

7. Choose the character described in the following statement:
He has a white neck and dresses very nicely, especially considering that he’s supposed to be a “cloistered scholar.” He speaks with a lisp.
A) The Monk
B) The Cleric
C) The Pardoner
D) The Friar

8. Choose the character described in the following statement:
He is very large and strong; he has a red beard and a big hairy wart on the tip of his nose; he has large nostrils and carries a sword; he has a loud, large mouth; he wears a blue hood and a white coat.
A) The Miller
B) The Plowman
C) The Cleric
D) The Doctor

In hard times by charles dickens, mr. gradgrind’s name can be interpreted in several ways. the selection supports all of the following interpretations except he grinds out graduates who are similar to each other as if he were running a factory he grinds the importance of facts into students’ heads he grinds down children by crushing their imaginations he grinds his teeth together, suggesting his intolerance for fantasy

In the story "a very old man with enormous wings", why does the young girl get changed into a spider?

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.