This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Epic > Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 26 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To send to a destination on specific business A) Dispatch. B) Adversity. C) Agility. D) Repent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dispatch. 2. Financial person for a college-very tricky, quick to point out other peoples faults but not his own A) Yeoman. B) Master. C) Reeve. D) Miller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Master. 3. Of or relating to time as opposed to eternity A) Prescience. B) Temporal. C) Betray. D) Clemency. E) Sovereign. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temporal. 4. The Parson is a rich man. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 5. What moral is the priest trying to teach? A) Women are never to be trusted. B) Don't trust animals. C) Don't trust flatterers. D) Dreams are always correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Don't trust flatterers. 6. What does Chaucer describe in the first 18 lines of the Prologue? A) The setting of the pilgrimage. B) The characters of the pilgrims. C) The sensory details of the season. D) The history of Canterbury. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sensory details of the season. 7. The Host's name is A) Roger Warren. B) Roger of Ware. C) Harry Bailey. D) Geoffrey Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harry Bailey. 8. Which character in 'The Canterbury Tales' represents the ideal of a medieval knight? A) The Knight. B) The Squire. C) The Friar. D) The Monk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Knight. 9. The owner of The Madelayne who makes his prisoners "walk the plank"; Smuggled, Dishonest, Drunken, No value for life A) The Miller. B) The Reeve. C) The Knight. D) The Skipper. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Skipper. 10. The clergy kept all records in and spoke ..... A) Latin. B) French. C) English. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latin. 11. What is most likely true about the Friar? A) He uses people for money. B) He wants to be a merchant. C) He is pious and friendly. D) He is always helpful to others. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He uses people for money. 12. He practiced what he preached. A) Franklin. B) Friar. C) Monk. D) Parson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parson. 13. What is 'satire?' A) To praise and encourage a part of society. B) To describe in humorous ways but with intent for change. C) To keep the three segments of Medieval society separate. D) A critical report on literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To describe in humorous ways but with intent for change. 14. In what language did Chaucer write "The Canterbury Tales" ? A) Modern English. B) Old English. C) Early Modern English. D) Middle English. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Middle English. 15. Who shows up at the same inn as the narrator? A) 29 other pilgrims. B) 20 other pilgrims. C) 15 other pilgrims, a fox, a rooster, and a pack of hens. D) The Host. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 29 other pilgrims. 16. Before Chaucer, Latin and French were the only languages used by serious poets. Chaucer made the English language A) Worse. B) Common. C) Respectable. D) Obsolete. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Respectable. 17. What is a remission for the temporary punishment of sin that has been forgiven? A) Forgiveness. B) Indulgences. C) Alchemy. D) Microcosm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indulgences. 18. What is the definition of supple? A) The act of not giving a direct answer to a question in order to hide the truth. B) Bending and moving easily and gracefully; flexible. C) The medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code. D) A journey to a shrine or a sacred place. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bending and moving easily and gracefully; flexible. 19. Chaucer found inspiration for The Canterbury Tales from A) Petrarch. B) Dante. C) French romances. D) Boccaccio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boccaccio. 20. The age difference between the Wife of Bath and her fifth husband? A) Five years. B) Ten years. C) They are exactly the same age and born on the same day!. D) Twenty years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Twenty years. 21. Choose the ANTONYM for Misogynist A) Feminist. B) Friendly. C) Prejudiced. D) Insulting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feminist. 22. What did Arcite do after two years? A) He returned to Athens to help his brother escape. B) He married Emily. C) He changed his name and worked for Emily's father as a servant to see her. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He changed his name and worked for Emily's father as a servant to see her. 23. Which order of friars supported themselves by begging? A) Augustinians. B) Jesuits. C) Carmelites. D) Dominicans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dominicans. 24. What is the definition of the word "prologue" ? A) Introductory part of a novel or text. B) Vast; huge. C) Long and thin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Introductory part of a novel or text. 25. Which of the following purposes does the description of the Miller best serve? A) To symbolize England's increasing military power. B) To emphasize how society includes people who are obnoxious and tend to make a scene. C) To emphasize how storytelling played in a role in shaping people's lives. D) To emphasize how the declining influence of the church led to more immoral behavior among common people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To emphasize how society includes people who are obnoxious and tend to make a scene. 26. Throughout the year, cancer survivor Mya Bruegel, runs marathons to celebrate her victory over the horrible ..... A) Vintage. B) Collar. C) Malady. D) Pestilence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malady. 27. EMINENT means to be above others in rank or achievement A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 28. He wore blood-red garments. A) Merchant. B) Knight. C) Skipper. D) Doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Doctor. 29. Which Pilgrims are most richly attired? A) Miller, Yeoman, Summoner, Chaucer. B) Knight, Nun's Priest, Parson, Pardoner. C) Friar, Reeve, Manciple, Man of law. D) Wife of Bath, Squire, Monk, Physician, Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wife of Bath, Squire, Monk, Physician, Franklin. 30. What was it on the road to Canterbury that scared Chaucer? A) A flock of sheep. B) Wild horses. C) A herd of cows. D) Bandits. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A herd of cows. 31. Rising above others in rank or achievement A) Eminent. B) Discreet. C) Sincerity. D) Diligent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eminent. 32. Which character is a woodsman, who dresses in green, while carrying a sword and dagger? A) Yeoman. B) Plowman. C) Skipper. D) Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yeoman. 33. The Yeoman had arrows made of what? A) Peacock feathers. B) Horse hair. C) Chicken feathers. D) Goose feathers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peacock feathers. 34. Which of the following purposes does the description of the Summoner best serve? A) To emphasize how law in the Middle Ages was based on the Bible. B) To emphasize how the church punished people for immoral behavior but simultaneously employed many people who behaved immorally. C) To emphasize the way people were ostracized from society because of physical disfigurements. D) To poke fun at people who thought having legal knowledge gave them a higher social status. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To emphasize how the church punished people for immoral behavior but simultaneously employed many people who behaved immorally. 35. Taking effort and care; working carefully A) Dispatch. B) Diligent. C) Frugal. D) Unanimously. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diligent. 36. Jolly, happy, celebratory A) Agility. B) Festive. C) Prudent. D) Personable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Festive. 37. Name the pilgrim who sold fake relics and scammed parishoners. A) Miller. B) Forgive. C) Prioress. D) Summoner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Forgive. 38. The Canterbury Tales was in what time period? A) Anglo-Saxon. B) Medieval. C) Victorian. D) Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medieval. 39. Identify the character from the quote:"He knew the taverns well in every townAnd every innkeeper and barmaid tooBetter than lepers, beggars and that crew, For in so eminent a man as heIt was not fitting with the dignityOf his position, dealing with a scumOf wretched lepers, nothing good can comeOf commerce with such slum-and-gutter dwellers, But only with the rich and victual-sellers.But anywhere a profit might accrueCourteous he was and lowly of service too." A) Doctor. B) Miller. C) Oxford Cleric. D) Friar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Friar. 40. What best describes THE NUN/PRIORESS? A) Strong and outspoken. B) Friendly and fun loving. C) Refined / fancy and sentimental. D) Well educated and wise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refined / fancy and sentimental. 41. The pilgrims have gathered together to travel to the shrine of a saint and plan to tell stories on the journey. What is the literary term for this kind of situation? A) Preface. B) Estates satire. C) Decameron. D) Frame tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Frame tale. 42. Normandy defeated England marking the beginning of the Medieval Period. The name of the King during this period is ..... A) King Harold. B) King Henry the VIII. C) King Hrothgar. D) King Henry the VII. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King Harold. 43. What did The Skipper know a lot about? A) Women. B) Money. C) Travel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Travel. 44. Which of the following best describes the Miller? A) Modest stained clothing, battles for religious wars. B) Big brawny, tells dirty tavern stories, plays bagpipes. C) Forking beard; motley dress, money management is his downfall, very knowledgeable. D) Very poor, he is the ideal parish priest, well educated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Big brawny, tells dirty tavern stories, plays bagpipes. 45. "He kept the gold he gained from pestilence. For gold in physic is fine cordial, And therefore loved he gold exceeding all." A) Franklin. B) Sailor. C) Doctor. D) Cook. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Doctor. 46. Select the correct word:act of freeing someone of a sin or criminal charge A) Solicitious. B) Sanguine. C) Absolution. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Absolution. 47. Where is Chaucer buried? A) In France. B) In Ireland. C) In Canterbury. D) In London. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In London. 48. Motivated by gold; follows astrology; makes money along with an apothecary A) Monk. B) Doctor. C) Sergeant-at-Laws. D) Reeve. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Doctor. 49. Who was the medieval version of a modern day lawyer? A) Friar. B) Sergeant at law. C) Oxford Cleric. D) Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sergeant at law. 50. One reason they went on their journey to Canterbury was ..... A) For spiritual renewal. B) To look for the Holy Grail. C) For physical fitness. D) To make money. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) For spiritual renewal. 51. This pilgrim Carried a coral rosary with a locket inscribed in Latin, Love conquers All. A) Merchant. B) Plowman. C) Wife of Bath. D) Nun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nun. 52. Which language most directly influenced the development of English during the Medieval period? A) Swedish. B) German. C) French. D) Latin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) French. 53. Who is a Summoner? A) A person from the Middle Ages who gives counseling to those in need of help. B) A person from the medieval church who calls, or summons, people before the church for their crimes. C) A person from the medieval church who is a peasant and disliked by most of the kingdom. D) A member of the religious clergy, like a priest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person from the medieval church who calls, or summons, people before the church for their crimes. 54. What dose the suffix-able mean? A) Incapable of being OR unworthy. B) Capable of being or worthy of being. C) Pertaining to. D) The act, practice, or process of doing something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capable of being or worthy of being. 55. Select the correct word:Act of giving authority to an individual A) Sanguine. B) Absolution. C) Commission. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commission. 56. What question does the old woman ask the knight after they are married in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" ? A) Do you want me to be young and poor or old and wealthy?. B) Why do men want young, wealthy wives instead of older wives?. C) Do you want me to be young and faithless or old and faithful?. D) Do you want me to be young and rule our marriage or old and obedient?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Do you want me to be young and faithless or old and faithful?. 57. The pilgrims were traveling to the shrine of A) John the Baptist. B) Paul the Apostle. C) Thomas Becket. D) St. Peter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Becket. 58. He'd seen many walk the plank. A) Yeoman. B) Friar. C) Skipper. D) Plowman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skipper. 59. What kind of people are the rioters? A) Upstanding citizens. B) Gamblers and drunks. C) Hardworking people. D) Good people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gamblers and drunks. 60. The Friar and the Summoner are close friends. A) False. B) True. 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