Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales were both:
a. Composed in Latin, in emulation of their ancient Roman models.
b. Created in the 13 century, just when new forms of literature were being introduced.
c. Constructed from bawdy and erotically themed stories.
d. Cited by Dante as examples of literature that could be found in various circles of Hell.
c. Constructed from bawdy and erotically themed stories.
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What characterized the American economy of the 1920s?
a. a desire for foreign imports over domestic products b. a reduction in consumer spending c. advertising becoming a major industry d. a revival in small shops over larger department stores e. a boom in agriculture
The huge commitment of Chinese troops against the forces of the Japanese leader Hideyoshi during his attempted invasion of ________ and China from 1592 to 1598 weakened the Ming dynasty and led to the rise of the Manchus.
a. The Philippines. b. Korea. c. Vietnam. d. Russia.
The essence of the capitalist revolution in manufacturing was the dispossession of self-employed labor and the proletarianization of wage labor.
a. true b. false
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the growth of newspapers
A. resulted in most large cities being serviced by one dominant paper. B. was largely due to national population growth. C. led to a significant decline in the telegraph industry. D. saw circulation increase much more rapidly than the general population. E. did not coincide with a rise in journalists' salaries.