Read the excerpt from the canterbury tales. in flanders there was once a company of youngsters wedded to such sin and folly as gaming, dicing, brothels, and taverns, where, night and day, with harps, lutes, and citherns, they spend their time in dicing and in dancing, eating and drinking more than they can carry; and with these abominable excesses they offer up the vilest sacrifices . . which word best characterizes the young people in this passage? humble nervous sensitive immoral

The correct answer is D. Immoral

Explanation:

"The Canterbury Tales" is a collection of stories written by the English writer Geoffrey Chaucer by the end of the 14th century and that are part of the story of a group of pilgrims traveling together from London to Canterbury, because of this they decide to create a story-telling contest to make the pilgrimage entertained. In the excerpt presented, one of pilgrims which is the Pardoner is telling his story and begins saying he meet a group of young people or youngster in Flanders, considering he uses adjectives such as "sin and folly" and words such as "gaming, dicing, brothels and taverns" to describe the youngsters actions and at the of the excerpt qualify these actions as "abominable excesses" it can be concluded he believed the behavior and actions of the youngsters are mainly Immoral as the narrator describes them as negative and excessive also, the description of the youngsters is linked to negative places and actions that are considered as immoral or incorrect even nowadays.