This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Epic > Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I pretend that I have money but I am really in debt. A) Yeoman. B) Friar. C) Knight. D) Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Merchant. 2. The term that means "regulated prices and standards" A) Currency. B) Ordeals. C) Guilds. D) Rationing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Guilds. 3. Sly or cunning intelligence A) Guile. B) Disdainful. C) Stature. D) Discreet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Guile. 4. Takes more than her share at dinner A) The Wife of Bath. B) The Prioress (Nun). C) The Yeoman. D) The Friar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Prioress (Nun). 5. Which of the following occurred 2nd after the Pardoner finished his story? A) The Pardoner explains how he brings "relics" with supposed miraculous properties to his sermons and how people offer to pay him for their use. B) The Pardoner proclaims that his scheme has made him a hundred marks a year. C) The Pardoner admits that he does not care at all about punishing his congregants' sins or about the salvation of their souls . D) The Pardoner says he always preaches on the same theme:Radix malorum est cupiditas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Pardoner explains how he brings "relics" with supposed miraculous properties to his sermons and how people offer to pay him for their use. 6. The original version of The Canterbury Tales was written by Geoffrey Chaucer somewhere between ..... to ..... A) 1400-1480. B) 1380-1400. C) 1600-1700. D) 1500-1580. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1380-1400. 7. The member of the aristocracy who is portrayed as a perfect example of chivalry. He has just returned from The Crusades and is dressed plainly. A) The Knight. B) The Monk. C) The Pardoner. D) The Summoner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Knight. 8. Which of the following quotations from "The Prologue" is the BEST example of imagery? A) "Thinly they fell, like rat-tails, one by one.". B) "In fifteen mortal battles he had been.". C) "He'd seen some service with the calvary.". D) "Just home from service, he had joined our ranks.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Thinly they fell, like rat-tails, one by one.". 9. According to the Host's plan, each pilgrim would tell A) 2 tales. B) 6 tales. C) As many tales as he/she wished. D) 4 tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4 tales. 10. All in agreement; no one disagreeing A) Dainty. B) Prompt. C) Unanimous. D) Frugal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unanimous. 11. N., sly dealings; skill in deceiving A) Obstinate. B) Guile. C) Frugal. D) Duress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Guile. 12. What is the name of the man who wrote The Canterbury Tales? A) Geoffrey Chaucer. B) William Shakespeare. C) Petrarch. D) Thomas A. Beckett. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geoffrey Chaucer. 13. Wears brightly embroidered clothing A) The Reeve. B) The Squire. C) The Knight. D) The Plowman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Squire. 14. Why was everyone at The Tabbard? A) There was a band of highwaymen on the road and the people were afraid to travel. B) They were waiting for the King's soldiers to come and escort them. C) They were on their way making a pilgrimage to Canterbury. D) They had come to celebrate the baptism of the King's youngest son. E) Over half the group had taken ill. They were recuperating at the inn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were on their way making a pilgrimage to Canterbury. 15. Who suggested the telling of stories on the road to Canterbury? A) Pilgrims. B) The Knight. C) St. Thomas A Becket. D) The Host. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Host. 16. How far was it from Southwark to Canterbury? A) 5 miles. B) 55 miles. C) 500 miles. D) 155 miles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 55 miles. 17. According to the reading which of these is NOT a job held by women in Medieval times? A) Weaver. B) Baker. C) Nun. D) Nurse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nun. 18. What's an example of verbal irony? A) Chanting, "You're an awesome athlete!" to an Olympian. B) Saying, "Good job!" to someone who just rear ended a car. C) When the sun is shining and the birds are singing, you say, "Nice weather we're having, right?". D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saying, "Good job!" to someone who just rear ended a car. 19. Was distinguished and chivalrous. Had a fine horse, chain mail, and had been in many battles A) Squire. B) Yeoman. C) Knight. D) Shopkeeper. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Knight. 20. Was he of noble birth or was he a peasant? A) Peasant. B) Noble birth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noble birth. 21. This character is described as old, thin, and has a closely shaven beard. A) The reeve. B) The summoner. C) The pardoner. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reeve. 22. "With black and scabby brows and scanty beard; He had a face that little children feared." A) Oxford Cleric. B) Summoner. C) Cook. D) Sailor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Summoner. 23. The Canterbury Tales show what life is like during this time period. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 24. This term means BOTH "someone who is kind and tender" and "someone from a higher social class who shows good manners." A) Chivalry. B) Gentle. C) Martyr. D) Noble. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gentle. 25. Criticized because he was a hunter A) Squire. B) Monk. C) Yeoman. D) Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monk. 26. He dressed as well as the pope. A) Lawyer. B) Franklin. C) Squire. D) Friar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Friar. 27. Which type of people did the parson visit? A) The rich. B) The poor. C) Both the rich and the poor. D) Neither, he was terrible at his job. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both the rich and the poor. 28. The word vernacular means ..... A) Easy breathing. B) Swelling of the lungs during plague. C) Common language. D) A word of praise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Common language. 29. What is the importance of the King allowing the Queen to decide the outcome of the knight's life? A) He wants to advocate for women's rights. B) It foreshadows the overall meaning of the text. C) It further emphasizes the reality that what women most desire is power, since her husband is providing it to her. D) It proved that men often allowed their wive's to make major decisions as well. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It further emphasizes the reality that what women most desire is power, since her husband is providing it to her. 30. Chaucer was born in London and belonged to ..... A) The lower class. B) The royal family. C) An educated middle class. D) The aristocracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An educated middle class. 31. Which of these lines best explains the central irony in "The Pardoner's Prologue" ? A) "By this fraud have I won me, year by year, / A hundred marks, since I've been pardoner.". B) "When they are dead, for all I think thereon / Their souls may well black-berrying have gone!". C) "For, when I dare not otherwise debate, / Then do I sharpen well my tongue and sting / The man in sermons, and upon him fling / My lying defamations". D) "Thus can I preach against that self-same vice / Which I indulge, and that is avarice.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Thus can I preach against that self-same vice / Which I indulge, and that is avarice.". 32. Death went his way without a word-is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Analogy. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 33. What quest is the Knight sent on? A) He is to find the Excaliber. B) He is to find what women most desire. C) He is to find out what women need. D) He is to find the Holy Grail. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is to find what women most desire. 34. He was the father of the squire. A) Student. B) Plowman. C) Parson. D) Knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Knight. 35. Where are the two brothers from? A) Italy. B) France. C) Edinburgh. D) Thebes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thebes. 36. Choose the ANTONYM for keen A) Dull. B) Feminist. C) Sharp. D) Journey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dull. 37. He had carbuncles on his face. A) Summoner. B) Yeoman. C) Miller. D) Friar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Summoner. 38. Inform means ..... A) Give in a form. B) Take the form. C) Give informal speech. D) Give information. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Give information. 39. Which character conducts Business outside the monastry A) Merchant. B) Priest. C) Friar. D) Monk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monk. 40. In "The Knight's Tale, " what is Arcite and Palamon's relationship in the beginning (7). A) They are cousins and friends. B) They are brothers and friends. C) They are two knights in the same army. D) They are cousins, but not friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are cousins and friends. 41. Eminent means..... A) Musically talented. B) Hilariously funny. C) Famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession. 42. What is the setting of the Wife of Bath's story? A) Britain during the time of King Arthur. B) Canterbury during Chaucer's lifetime. C) The land of the Elf-Queen in days of yore. D) The Caucasus during the reign of Boethius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Britain during the time of King Arthur. 43. Which character had a white beard? A) Franklin. B) Oxford Cleric. C) Sergeant at Law. D) Nun. E) Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Franklin. 44. Which character sings, writes poems, and dances? A) Merchant. B) Squire. C) Lawyer. D) Yeoman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Squire. 45. Jessica is not popular, but she sure has a ..... group of friends who are interested in everything from classical music to ancient ruins. A) Scrupulous. B) Motley. C) Yeoman. D) Superfluous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motley. 46. Promptly pays tithes A) The Reeve. B) The Monk. C) The Plowman. D) The Parson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Plowman. 47. The ..... of the Middle Ages included cloaks, tunics, and kerchiefs. A) Virtue. B) Coy. C) Mode. D) Disdain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mode. 48. He judges the tale telling contest. A) Franklin. B) Miller. C) Reeve. D) Harry Bailey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harry Bailey. 49. When Chaucer says the Parson is a good priest, what method of characterization does he use? A) What the character thinks. B) How others react to the character. C) How the character acts. D) What the character says. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How the character acts. 50. Wears silk belt of pin stripe fabric A) The Monk. B) The Yeoman. C) The Man of Law (Serjeant of the Law). D) The Reeve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Man of Law (Serjeant of the Law). 51. Which character in 'The Canterbury Tales' is more interested in hunting and luxurious living than in the monastic life? A) The Miller. B) The Man of Law. C) The Pardoner. D) The Monk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Monk. 52. What three segments of Medieval England does Chaucer examine in the General Prologue? A) The feudal order, the church, the legal profession. B) The church, the legal profession, the nuns. C) The feudal order, the merchants, the church. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The feudal order, the merchants, the church. 53. This group included working jobs such as clerk, constable, watchman, woodworker, blacksmith or barber. A) Clergy. B) Peasants. C) Nobles. D) Tradesmen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tradesmen. 54. If you are lucky, a rich distant relative may ..... a lot of money, jewels, and property in their will. A) Sovereignty. B) Bequeath. C) Crone. D) Le samurai family. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bequeath. 55. The Wife of Bath and The Pardoner are alike in that they both ..... A) Tell stories based on events in their lives. B) Tell stories related to lessons they have learned in life. C) Tell stories based on the past. D) Tell stories related to their character traits. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tell stories related to their character traits. 56. I have never lost a battle, and I follow the code of chivalry ..... Who am I? A) Forgive. B) Wife of Bath. C) Knight. D) Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Knight. 57. Which of the following purposes does the description of the Merchant best serve? A) To emphasize the the lack of law enforcement during the Middle Ages. B) To emphasize the financial problems that were common after the Black Death. C) To emphasize how increased international trade created middle class occupations. D) To poke fun at European fashion trends. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To emphasize how increased international trade created middle class occupations. 58. What is the whole story of The Canterbury Tales about? A) A group of travelers telling stories for a competition. B) Two knights competing for the love of a girl. C) An affair that involves farting at people's faces. D) The Renaissance and its effect on art. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A group of travelers telling stories for a competition. 59. Which character among the travelers is responsible for doing most of the dirty jobs? A) Plowman. B) Cook. C) Yeoman. D) Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plowman. 60. Was the summoner clean or sloppy? A) Clean. B) Sloppy. 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