Answer:
What is this Monkey business?
Explanation:
B. Felt the purpose of art was to be a mirror turned on society
All other answers are characteristics of Romance writers.
My best guess would be, "B", "Grammatical conventions were much different then."
In A: it should be "I was" not "I were".
In B: it should be "lately you appear" not "you appears"
in C: this is correct! the subject is in agreement with the verb, and this is the correct answer.
in D: it should be "you are"