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Hank Morgan, the hero of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, is a nineteenth-century master mechanic who mysteriously awakening in sixth-century Britain, launches what he hopes will be a peaceful revolution to transform Arthurian Britain into an industrialized modern democracy. The novel, written as a spoof (a light humorous parody) of Thomas Malory's Morted' Arthur, a popular collection of fifteenth-century legends about sixth-century Britain, has been made into three upbeat movies and two musical comedies. None of these translations to screen and stage, however, dramatize the anarchy at the conclusion of A Connecticut Yankee, which ends with the violent overthrow of Morgan's three-year-old progressive order and his return to the nineteenth century, where he apparently commits suicide after being labeled a lunatic for his incoherent babblings about drawbridges and battlements. The American public, although enjoying Twain's humor, evidently rejected his cynicism about technological advancement and change through peaceful revolution as antithetical to the United States doctrine of progress.
The author of the passage characterizes Thomas Malory's Morte d' Arthur as which of the following?
- A The best-known and most authoritative collection of Arthurian tales written in the English language
- B A collection of legends that have been used as the basis for three movies and two musical comedies
- C A historical account of King Arthur, the sixth-century king of Britain
- D A collection of legends about sixth-century Britain that have existed since at least the fifteenth century
- E The novel about the life of King Arthur that inspired Twain's cynicism about nineteenth-century notions of progress