Question

Read the excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

They went on staring at the knight for some time, everyone wondering what it might mean for a man and a horse to acquire such a color, as green as the grass grows, and greener still, it seemed, the green enamel glowing brighter on the gold period all of them standing there stared and crept closer to him with all the Wonder in the world, to see what he would do. or they had seen many marvels but never any like this, so they all thought it might be a phantom or trick of magic, so that many of the noble knights were afraid to answer, and all were struck by his voice and stayed stoned still, and there was a silence like death through the Great Hall period not a sound Rose from them, as though they had all fallen asleep.

Which textual evidence best supports the conclusion that the knights are intimidated by the visitor?

A) they went on staring at the night for some time, everyone wondering what it might mean

B) all of them standing there stared and cracked closer to him with all the Wonder in the world, to see what he would do

C) for they had seen many marvels but never any like this, so they all thought it might be a phantom or trick of magic

D) so that many of the noble knights were afraid to answer, and all or struck by his voice in state stone still​

Answer 1

D-- So that many of the noble knights were afraid to answer,

And all were struck by his voice and stayed stone still

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

D) So that many of the noble knights were afraid to answer, and all were struck by his voice and stayed still.

Step-by-step explanation:

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance and one of the best-known stories about the legendary King Arthur.

It tells about how Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table, accepts a challenge from a mysterious Green Knight, who dares any knight to strike him if he will accept a return blow in a year and a day. Gawain accepts and beheads him. At the end, when the Green Knight is supposed to return the favor, he only lightly wounds Gawain and reveals that he is in fact a lord transformed by magic and that this was all a test designed by Morgan le Fay, Arthur's sister, who wanted to test Arthur's knights.

The given excerpt shows the encounter between Arthur's knights and the Green knight. They were staring at him and crept closer to him because they were curious, and since they had seen nothing like that before, they thought it might be a phantom or magic. We can see that they were also intimidated by the fact that they were afraid to answer and froze.

Thus, the correct answer is D.