Read the passage from Ivanhoe.
How can the reader conclude that the passage takes
About the hour of ten o clock, the whole plain was
place in the medieval period?
crowded with horsemen, horsewomen, and foot-
passengers, hastening to the tournament; and shortly
O The a passage portrays a group of people watching
after, a grand flourish of trumpets announced Prince
public games.
John and his retinue, attended by many of those
O The passage portrays a public gathering sanctioned
knights who meant to take share in the game, as well
by the Church.
as others who had no such intention.
O The passage portrays a monarch ruling over a
division of social classes.
About the same time arrived Cedric the Saxon, with the
O The passage portrays common professions of the
Lady Rowena, unattended, however, by Athelstane.
middle class during the era.
This Saxon lord had arrayed his tall and strong person
in armour, in order to take his place among the
combatants; and, considerably to the surprise of
Cedric, had chosen to enlist himself on the part of the
Knight Templar.