This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Epic > Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the king of Thebes that was easily defeated by Theseus? A) Femeny. B) Creon. C) Perotheus. D) Saturn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Creon. 2. A disease or disorder; an ailment A) Sedately. B) Entreaty. C) Malady. D) Courtliness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malady. 3. What time of year are the pilgrims departing for Canterbury? A) Spring. B) Fall. C) Summer. D) Winter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spring. 4. Which group of people were considered to be the lowest class? A) Knights. B) Barons. C) Nobles. D) Serfs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Serfs. 5. What are the similarities between the Black Death of the 14th century, and Covid-19 in the 21st century? A) Both are bacterial infections. B) Both are highly contagious. C) Both are spread by coughing, sneezing, and talking. D) Both are spread by fleas and rats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both are highly contagious. 6. She kept small dogs as pets. A) Wife of Bath. B) Doctor. C) Prioress. D) Reeve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prioress. 7. What is The Squire training to become? A) To chef. B) A knight. C) A tradesman. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A knight. 8. Does the following sentence use the vocab word correctly or incorrectly? "Clark made a very frugal decision when he bought a brand new car." A) Incorrectly. B) Correctly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incorrectly. 9. Which character was in 15 battles? A) Friar. B) Yeoman. C) Knight. D) Squire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Knight. 10. What is the occupation of the Knight in 'The Canterbury Tales'? A) Soldier. B) Clergyman. C) Lawyer. D) Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soldier. 11. Which character has sympathetic and tender feelings? A) Yeoman. B) Nun. C) Monk. D) Knight. E) Squire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nun. 12. Wears a lot of red make-up A) The Wife of Bath. B) The Knight. C) The Cook. D) The Reeve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Wife of Bath. 13. Which of the following best describe the Prioress? A) Forking beard, very knowledgeable, money management is his downfall. B) Fancy dresser, always wanted to be first at the altar, married 5 times. C) Very delicate and refined, emphasis on appearance, proper eater. D) Honest and hardworking, in peace and harmony with God and nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Very delicate and refined, emphasis on appearance, proper eater. 14. How many stories was Chaucer predicted to write? A) 24. B) 22. C) 100. D) 120. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 120. 15. Which Canterbury Tales pilgrim traveled to far away places to do battle for the church? A) The Host. B) The Miller. C) The Knight. D) The Summoner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Knight. 16. What type of class system was used in the Medieval Britain? A) Communism. B) Socialism. C) Imperialism. D) Feudalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feudalism. 17. Who speaks French and "for courtliness she had a special zest" ? A) Wife of Bath. B) Wife old Carpenter. C) Nun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nun. 18. The Black Death is a deadly ..... that still flares up from time to time. A) Malady. B) Pestilence. C) Verity. D) Accrue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pestilence. 19. He carried pig's bones in a pillow case. A) Miller. B) Merchant. C) Forgive. D) Parson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Forgive. 20. Select the correct word:evasion of truth A) Prevarication. B) Sanguine. C) Commission. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prevarication. 21. Which character is strong and agile? A) Friar. B) Yeoman. C) Squire. D) Lawyer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Squire. 22. How many tales are within the Canterbury Tales? A) 2, 000. B) 24. C) 20. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 24. 23. What was the name of the inn where the 29 pilgrims gathered? A) Tabard. B) Becket. C) Drury Inn. D) Motel 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tabard. 24. What does the narrator want from the other travelers? A) He wants to join them. B) He wants them to tell him stories. C) He wants them to pay him to be their guide to Canterbury. D) He wants them to keep it down so he can get some sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He wants to join them. 25. How many times had the wife of bath been to Jerusalem? A) 2. B) 5. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 26. What is the definition of a frame narrative? A) A frame narrative tells the reader what is going to happen. B) A frame narrative is a brief summary of the plot, which is told at the end of the story. C) A frame narrative is a story set within a story, narrative, or film, told by the main or the supporting character. D) A frame narrative sets the scene of a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A frame narrative is a story set within a story, narrative, or film, told by the main or the supporting character. 27. The woman sat ..... near the placid lake to meditate, journal, and reassess her life. A) And his kindness. B) Sundry. C) Sedately. D) Sanguine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sedately. 28. True or False:Precise is used for something that is NOT accurate A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 29. Why did the rioters want to move the coins at night? A) They didn't want death to see them. B) Avoid suspicion. C) So no one will take the coins. D) Seek help from the local farmer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Avoid suspicion. 30. Release from guilt, obligation or punishment A) Garnished. B) Commission. C) Soliticous. D) Absolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Absolution. 31. Really good at being frugal in buying food A) Master. B) Oxford Cleric. C) Merchant. D) Miller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Master. 32. Who is considered to be the pilgrims narrator A) Chamen. B) Chaucer. C) Xhaucet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chaucer. 33. What question did the Knight in Wife of Bath's Tale need to answer? A) How do I lose a guy in 10 days?. B) What do men desire most?. C) What do you want for dinner?. D) What do women desire most?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What do women desire most?. 34. This type of irony is defined as something opposite happening as what's expected. A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational. 35. Which of the following is not considered one of the Seven Deadly Sins? A) Vanity. B) Anger. C) Love. D) Pride. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love. 36. Passionately; having or expressing warmth, depth or intense feelings A) Greedily. B) Daintily. C) Fervently. D) Pilgrimage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fervently. 37. What is symbolism? A) Repetition of the initial consonant. B) A device in literature where an object represents an idea. C) A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as". D) A device used to create expectation or set up an explanation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A device in literature where an object represents an idea. 38. Which Character wore a short gown? A) The Squire. B) The Knight. C) The Yoeman. D) The Nun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Squire. 39. How does direct characterization help in understanding a character in The Canterbury Tales? A) Direct characterization reveals the character's thoughts and feelings. B) Direct characterization focuses on the character's actions and behaviors. C) Direct characterization provides explicit information about the character's traits, personality, and appearance. D) Direct characterization emphasizes the character's role in the plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Direct characterization provides explicit information about the character's traits, personality, and appearance. 40. Why do the rioters go looking for death in the tale? A) To be paid. B) They were commissioned by the king. C) Avenge the death of their friend. D) Earn fame and fortune. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Avenge the death of their friend. 41. John ..... the thief when he saw him trying to break into his car. A) Undulated. B) Accosted. C) Keened. D) Ostentatious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Accosted. 42. Which character has to tell the first tale? A) The Knight. B) The Pardoner. C) The Miller. D) The Prioress. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Knight. 43. Which is NOT important to setting? A) Time period. B) Events that happen. C) Describing the location. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Events that happen. 44. Type of irony in which the reader/audience knows something a character does not A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic. 45. Which Canterbury Tales pilgrim owns a ship and makes prisoners walk the plank? A) The Franklin. B) The Skipper. C) The Merchant. D) The Yeoman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Skipper. 46. Why would we want to read the modern version of The Canterbury Tales? A) It's more interesting. B) The language is easier for us to understand because we are familiar with it. C) That's the version our teacher wants us to read. D) The original version was written in French. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The language is easier for us to understand because we are familiar with it. 47. Had a pimply face, friend of The Pardoner, had a love of onions and leeks A) Summoner. B) Franklin. C) Monk. D) Lawyer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Summoner. 48. Which of the following is NOT an example of irony in the story. A) Monna ends up marrying Federigo. B) Federigo cooks the very thing Monna needs. C) Monna's son dies. D) Monna needs Federigo more when he doesn't have the money to impress her. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monna's son dies. 49. What is the name of the inn where the pilgrims meet in 'The Canterbury Tales'? A) The Leaky Cauldron. B) The Tabard Inn. C) The Prancing Pony. D) The Green Dragon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Tabard Inn. 50. The Wife of Bath's first name is A) Absalom. B) Bertha. C) Alison. D) She isn't given a first name, just "The Wife". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alison. 51. The characters set off on a ..... A) Pilgrimage. B) Holiday. C) Walk. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pilgrimage. 52. Great hardship or difficulty; misfortune A) Adversity. B) Dispense. C) Courteous. D) Pilgrimage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adversity. 53. What was unique about Chaucer? A) He could speak multiple languages. B) He was born into royalty. C) His experience allowed him to write about all walks of life. D) He wrote "The Canterbury Tales" about his life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His experience allowed him to write about all walks of life. 54. Where is the pardoner from? A) London. B) Rome. C) Canterbury. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rome. 55. To leave in a will A) Implore. B) Chivalry. C) Bequeath. D) Le samurai family. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bequeath. 56. The tales are told by pilgrims during a pilgrimage to Canterbury Caste A) No, during a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No, during a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral. 57. To be added or gained; to accumulate A) Malady. B) Courtliness. C) Accrue. D) Entreaty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Accrue. 58. Which character seemed to be a bit pretentious (putting on airs)? A) Squire. B) Monk. C) Nun. D) Knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nun. 59. Total tales in the Canterbury tales A) 24. B) 22. C) 23. D) 25. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 24. 60. Which character had an ulcer on his knee? A) Friar. B) Squire. C) Merchant. D) Oxford Cleric. E) Cook. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Cook. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesChaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 1Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 2Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 3Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 4Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 5Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 6Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 7Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books