For what innovation in Don Quixote was Miguel de Cervantes acclaimed by his contemporaries?
a. satirizing chivalric romances
b. using everyday speech in dialogue
c. making his protagonist a commoner
d. giving his protagonist a sidekick
Answer: b
You might also like to view...
This composer was famous as an organ virtuoso during his lifetime. He never
traveled outside of his native country, Germany, and spent the last decades of his life in Leipzig as the cantor of Saint Thomas’s church and choir school.
a. Vivaldi b. Bach c. Handel d. Purcell e. Pachelbel
The mission of the ____, the earliest crusading knights, was to protect Christians visiting Christian shrines in the Holy Land
a. Franciscans b. Benedictines c. Cistercian Order d. Knights Templar
What musical element is created by the sympathetic strings on a sitar?
A. Saman B. Drone C. Tala D. Raga
Which composer came to the United States from Hungary, served as a librarian at Columbia University, and was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra to write an orchestral piece?
A) Béla Bartók B) Sergei Rachmaninov C) Sergei Prokofiev D) Antonín Dvo?ák