Which type of music did NOT maximize rational control by the composer?

Which of the following best describes this selection's music-text relationship?

a) Largely syllabic b) Syllabic, neumatic, and melismatic c) Largely melismatic d) Neumatic and melismatic

By the seventh century, which three religions combined to stabilize Chinese culture?

a) Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism b) Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism c) Buddhism, Daoism, Islam d) Daoism, Christianity, Buddhism