QUESTION 1

The level of society dealing with the church is...

A. Pilgrimage

B. ecclesiastic

C. Oxford Cleric

QUESTION 2

This killed about 1/3 of England's population.

A. Scarlet fever

B. strep throat

C. Black plague

QUESTION 3

A group of stories united in one central idea is called a couplet.

True

False

QUESTION 4

The father of English literature; used realism in his writing is_____________.

A. Chaucer

B. Shakespeare

C. James Joyce

QUESTION 5

Two consecutive lines of poetry with rhyme is called a frame story.

True

False

QUESTION 6

The name of a religious journey made by a group of pilgrims is called a pilgrimage

True

False

QUESTION 7

The judge of the storytelling contest is __________.

A. Parson

B. clerk

C. Host - Harry Bailry

D. Wife of Bath

QUESTION 8

The number of stories each pilgrim would tell is four.

True

False

QUESTION 9

The pilgrim who spent more money on books than on clothes was___________.

A. Pardoner

B. The Miller

C. The Parson

D. Oxford Cleric

QUESTION 10

This pilgrim's motto was, If gold rusts, what will iron do?

A. Parson

B. The Reeve

C. Wife of Bath

QUESTION 11

Explain how Chaucer's style of writing was different from early Anglo-Saxon poetry. What poetic techniques did he use, and what was the overall effect in literature?

QUESTION 12

What is the setting of the Pardoner's Tale?

QUESTION 13

What is another name for a drunken trouble maker?

A. an old man

B. rioter

C. an old friend

QUESTION 14

This is what makes the rioters curious at the tavern.

A. wrestling and stabbing

B. gold florins

C. a funeral procession

D. an old man

QUESTION 15

This is who was killed by death.

A. an old man

B. rioter

C. An old friend

QUESTION 16

This is what death really refers to.

QUESTION 17

This character told the rioters where to find death.

QUESTION 18

This is what the rioters found under a tree.

A. Gold florins

B. poison

C. money

QUESTION 19

This is how they decide who will go back to town for dinner.

QUESTION 20

This is how the young rioter plans to kill the others.

A. wrestling and stabbing

B. poison

C. shooting

QUESTION 21

The two old rioters plan to kill the young one by wrestling and stabbing him.

True

False

QUESTION 22

Explain the two types of irony which occur in the story.

(1) Why is it ironic that the Pardoner tells a tale with this moral?

(2) What is ironic in the end of the story for the rioters?

QUESTION 23

What is the setting of the Wife of Bath's Tale

QUESTION 24

This character was accused of mistreating a maiden.

QUESTION 25

This is the usual punishment for raping a maiden.

QUESTION 26

The idea of changing the Knight's punishment was which characters?

QUESTION 27

The Queen told the Knight that he had to find out what women's desire was for his punishment

True

False

QUESTION 28

The Knight was given 8 months to figure out the answer.

True

False

QUESTION 29

Who ended up giving the Knight the correct answer?

QUESTION 30

What did this character want in return?

QUESTION 31

How did the Knight feel when he did what she wanted?

QUESTION 32

The Knight's response to the choice the old lady gave him was to let her decide

True

False

QUESTION 33

In the end of this tale, the Knight had to make a decision about his new life.

(1) What choice did she give him?

(2) What did he tell her in response?

(3) How did she react to his decision? (4)Why?

QUESTION 34

The setting of the Nun's Priest Tale is in a small cottage near a meadow.

True

False

QUESTION 35

Who is the main character, the rooster?

QUESTION 36

This character is the rooster's favorite wife.

QUESTION 37

What does the rooster dream of?

QUESTION 38

What is the rooster's wife's remedy for curing a bad dream?

QUESTION 39

When the fox appears, the rooster doesn't run because the rooster tells the fox that he will chase him.

True

False

QUESTION 40

When the fox sings, the rooster grabs him by the throat.

True

False

QUESTION 41

Where does the fox take the rooster?

QUESTION 42

The fox lets the rooster go because he talks to people chasing him.

True

False

QUESTION 43

Both the fox and the rooster were tricked because of this.

QUESTION 44

What is the Nun's Priest's purpose for telling this tale? What is the moral of the story?