Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England. But be careful if you adopt a partial regime: heavy fine
s are levied for eating meat on nonmeat days. The standard fine is £3 or three months imprisonment, but in 1561 a London butcher slaughtering three oxen in Lent is fined £20. Fines can be levied on the head of a household for every single member who breaks the fast, so if you have lots of servants, make sure they all obey the law. What is the effect of the second-person point of view in this excerpt? It allows the reader to personally experience the effects of hunger during Elizabethan England. It puts the reader in the place of the Elizabethan who has to pay fines for eating meat. It explains to the reader which types of food were acceptable during Lent. It describes the difficulties of being the head of an Elizabethan household.
The question revolves around the religious observance called Lent. According to the fasting traditions, person doesn't have to eat meat. Working through the answers we can yield that the correct answer is the second one - It puts the reader in the place of the Elizabethan who has to pay fines for eating meat. Indeed, no other related information from the excerpt could be found in the options.
