Part 1: An Introduction to Elizabethan England – Flashcards
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Which ideas are implicitly stated in the excerpt? Check all that apply.
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More people had food during harvest season.
Food was more scarce during the winter months.
Not many Elizabethans ate exotic fruit.
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The details from this excerpt support the inference that
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Elizabethans' attitude toward eating meat was becoming more relaxed.
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What is the effect of the second-person point of view in this excerpt?
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It puts the reader in the place of the Elizabethan who has to pay fines for eating meat.
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Which detail gives explicit information about Elizabethans' perception of the moor?
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Elizabethans see it as good for nothing but pasture, tin mining, and the steady water supply it provides . . .
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Which detail gives implicit information about the modern view of the Elizabethan landscape?
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Ranges of hills and mountains are obstacles to Elizabethan travelers and very far from picturesque features you go out of your way to see.
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Which detail from the text best supports the inference that farm animals were very valuable in Elizabethan England?
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Taking livestock is theft, and theft is a felony which carries the death sentence.
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Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.
But you still have producers holding back corn supplies, even though hoarding is forbidden by law. In Stratford in 1597 seventy-five townsmen are found guilty of hoarding corn, including William Shakespeare, who is hanging on to ten quarters of malt. Worse than this, "engrossers" buy up all the local supply of an important commodity, such as eggs or butter, in order to drive up the price. In the 1590s certain unscrupulous businessmen buy up to twenty thousand pounds of butter—and this is disastrous because it is an important part of people's diet. Combined with hoarding, this has dramatic consequences for the poor. In some places the famine of 1594-97 proves as deadly as the plague of 1563.
The details from this excerpt support the inference that
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the rich often still prospered while the poor starved.
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Which detail from the text best supports the inference that many Elizabethans could not afford to buy grain during some years?
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Other bad years—when the price of grain is 20 percent or more above the rolling average—are 1573, 1586, and 1600.
