Question

Choose the correct statement about the middle English period

1. The four and a half centuries between the Norman Conquest in 966, which effected radical changes in the language, life, and culture of England, and about 1500, when the standard literary language (deriving from the dialect of the London area) had become recognizably “modern English”—that is, close enough to the language we speak and write to be intelligible to a present-day reader.
2. The four and a half centuries between the Norman Conquest in 2000, which effected radical changes in the language, life, and culture of England, and about 1500, when the standard literary language (deriving from the dialect of the London area) had become recognizably “modern English”—that is, close enough to the language we speak and write to be intelligible to a present-day reader.
3. The four and a half centuries between the Norman Conquest in 1066, which effected radical changes in the language, life, and culture of England, and about 1500, when the standard literary language (deriving from the dialect of the London area) had become recognizably “modern English”—that is, close enough to the language we speak and write to be intelligible to a present-day reader.

• A. None of these
• B. iii only correct
• C. i, iii correct
• D. ii, iii correct

Answer 1

Answer:

B. iii only correct

• The span from 1100 to 1350 is sometimes discriminated as the AngloNorman Period because the non-Latin literature of that time was written mainly in Anglo-Norman, the French dialect spoken by the invaders, who had established themselves as the ruling class of England, and who shared a literary culture with French-speaking areas of mainland Europe