Based on details in the text, what can you infer about the author’s attitude toward the Peasants’ Revolt?
a.
She thinks that the peasants were far too violent in their protests.
b.
She sympathizes with the peasants and believes that their cause was just.
c.
She sides with the ruling class and thinks the peasants should have been grateful for what they had.
d.
She thinks that the peasants did not try hard enough to win during the revolt.
Which quotations from the text most clearly support the inference in Part A? Choose three options.
a.
He was a vagrant priest, scholar, and zealot who had been wandering the country for twenty years . . .
b.
Although the poll tax was the igniting spark, the fundamental grievance was the bonds of villeinage and the lack of legal and political rights.
c.
As the sound of the rising spread . . ., riots and outbreaks widened.
d.
Every attorney’s house on the line of march reportedly was destroyed.
e.
The “righteous poor,” promised a Franciscan friar, “will stand up against the cruel rich at the Day of Judgment and will accuse them of their works and severity on earth.”
f.
To a deputation from Essex who came to remind the King of his promise to end villeinage, Richard replied, “Villeins you are, and villeins ye shall remain.”