The Song of Roland is one of the finest examples of
A) the medieval chanson de geste.
B) twelfth-century courtly romance.
C) the Arthurian legend.
D) Latin religious verse.
E) troubadour epic.
A
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a) considered or committed suicide b) left detailed accounts of the violence c) successfully seized their slave ships d) mutilated themselves to avoid being considered worth capturing
In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers
A. experienced a loss in their control over their own work. B. were forced to contend with arduous and dangerous working conditions. C. both saw a rise in their standard of living, and experienced a loss in their control over their own work. D. saw a rise in their standard of living. E. All these answers are correct.
The verdict of the 1734–1735 libel trial of New York publisher John Peter Zenger
A. banned all printed attacks on the king or Parliament in the colonies. B. ruled that criticisms by the press, even if factually accurate, were libelous. C. resulted in the closure of several colonial newspapers. D. increased freedom of the press in the colonies. E. restricted the ability of the press to report on government affairs.
Which of the following is true of Margaret Sanger's work?
A. She believed a women's sexual pleasure was a threat to society. B. She fought for the equality of immigrants. C. She succeeded in overturning most state laws prohibiting contraception. D. She formed the American Birth Control League in 1921.