Choose the meaning of the bold words in questions 1-10.
5. if there be one among you that is willing / to have my aboslution for a shilling. (the canterbury tales, "the pardoner's tale") absolution is in bold.
a. prayer garment b. confessions c. prediction d. remission of sin
7. for our parents nothing can we claim / save temporal things, and these may hurt and maim. (the canterbury tales, "the wife of bath's tale") temporal is in bold.
a. painful b. sacred c. secular d. hereditary

Read this excerpt from "we shall overcome." hundreds of thousands of people sang them. but sometimes, it was one lone person with a guitar. they sang in segregated bus stations, picket lines, freedom marches, concert stadiums, city squares, and videos. when injustice of oppression threatens, people sing protest songs to proclaim their resistance, publicize their cause, and encourage hope for a better future, based on this excerpt as an introductory paragraph, which of the following would you expect to read about in the article? different groups of people who were oppressed the ways that music brings diverse groups of people together similarities between historical movements that provided rights for groups of people different song styles throughout specific historical events