This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Epic > Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The combination of qualities expected of an ideal knight, especially courage, honor, courtesy, justice, and a readiness to help the weak. A) Chivalry. B) Courtly love. C) Code of Knights. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chivalry. 2. Hard worker; carts manure and works on a farm A) The Reeve. B) The Cook. C) The Plowman. D) The Parson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Plowman. 3. The Bubonic plague killed about A) 2 million. B) 20. C) 20, 000. D) 20 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 20 million. 4. Successful, well-known and respected A) Wonderful. B) Eminent. C) Amazing. D) Fantastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eminent. 5. In what century was The Canterbury Tales written? A) 13s. B) 14th. C) 15th. D) 12th. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14th. 6. Maggie is the most ..... and friendly person I've ever met, I love working with her on projects. A) Amiable. B) Avaricious. C) Coy. D) Overt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amiable. 7. In the end, the knight A) Conceded to the old woman to do as she pleased. B) Thought to abandon the old woman. C) Was punished for raping the maiden. D) Chose to have the old but faithful lady. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conceded to the old woman to do as she pleased. 8. What vocab word means "famous and respected within a particular area?" A) Benign. B) Duress. C) Eminent. D) Agility. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eminent. 9. What did Theseus decide to do with Palamon and Arcite when they turned out to be alive? A) Imprison them forever. B) Turn them into his servants. C) Hang their bodies outside the city walls. D) Set them free but they cannot come back to Thebes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imprison them forever. 10. What is indirect characterization in literature? A) The process of revealing a character's traits through their inner thoughts and feelings. B) The process of revealing a character's traits through direct statements or descriptions. C) The process of revealing a character's traits through their physical appearance only. D) The process of revealing a character's traits through their actions, thoughts, dialogue, appearance, or other characters' perceptions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The process of revealing a character's traits through their actions, thoughts, dialogue, appearance, or other characters' perceptions. 11. True or False? The Knight's are described as a "gatepost" A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 12. In The Canterbury Tales, who presented the idea for each pilgrim to tell stories on their trip in order to win a prize when they returned? A) The Host. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) The Knight. D) The Pardoner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Host. 13. The Middle English had a lot of regional variations A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 14. How old was the reeve's lord? A) 30. B) 50. C) 20. D) 40. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 20. 15. In his description of the Wife of Bath in the General Prologue the narrator's tone is A) Harshly sarcastic. B) Highly sympathetic. C) Gently ironic. D) Strongly critical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gently ironic. 16. Which of the following purposes does the description of the Wife of Bath best serve? A) To emphasize how women's lives were restricted in the Middle Ages. B) To emphasize how popular the activity of religious pilgrimage was in the Middle Ages. C) To emphasize the luxurious clothing people could get if they bribed church officials. D) To emphasize how society includes people who are outgoing and most at ease in social situations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To emphasize how society includes people who are outgoing and most at ease in social situations. 17. Which saint are the pilgrims traveling to honor? A) St. Benedict. B) St. Maur. C) St. Thomas Becket. D) St. Peter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) St. Thomas Becket. 18. Johnny is not gluttonous, but he does like a good ..... now and then. A) Pestilence. B) Livery. C) Martyr. D) Vintage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vintage. 19. Who sold fake relics; his indulgences were most often sold at handsome prices? A) Reeve. B) Skipper. C) Master. D) Forgive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forgive. 20. The prologue ends with: A) All of the characters are ready to leave for the pilgrimage. They are going to have a contest and whomever tells the best story as they travel will win a free meal. B) All of the characters are ready to leave for the pilgrimage. The characters start fighting with each other. C) All of the characters are halfway to Canterbury. They are telling stories as they go. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of the characters are ready to leave for the pilgrimage. They are going to have a contest and whomever tells the best story as they travel will win a free meal. 21. Why are the pilgrims going on the pilgrimage? A) Religious Devotion. B) Guilt. C) Boredom. D) Loneliness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Religious Devotion. 22. Identify the character from the quote: "He was a master-hand at stealing grain. He felt it with his thumb and thus he knew Its quality and took three times his due ..... A thumb of gold, by God, to gauge an oat! He wore a hood of blue and a white coat." A) Wife of Bath. B) Miller. C) Host. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Miller. 23. Who is the first pilgrim that the narrator describes? A) The Squire. B) The Monk. C) The Knight. D) The Yeoman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Knight. 24. What does the Host propose to the group? A) They they all sleep in the barn where it is warm and they can see the stars. B) That they stay a few extra days at the inn and have a story-telling contest. C) That they promise to return to the Inn after their trip to Canterbury and recount it. D) That they have a story telling contest on the way to Canterbury. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That they have a story telling contest on the way to Canterbury. 25. Tiny and delicately beautiful A) Sundry. B) Courteous. C) Prudent. D) Dainty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dainty. 26. Because I love to hunt, I have the fastest greyhounds & the best horses ..... Who am I? A) Knight. B) Squire. C) Monk. D) Friar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monk. 27. What would you find the Monk doing on a beautiful day? A) Dancing. B) Praying. C) Shopping. D) Hunting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hunting. 28. Why is it such a big deal that Chaucer wrote in English? A) English was not Chaucer's native language. B) Only rich and powerful people spoke English. C) Only the clergy spoke English. D) English was the language of the common people. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) English was the language of the common people. 29. Takes from the poor to give to himself A) The Miller. B) The Merchant. C) The Friar. D) The Plowman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Friar. 30. The book is written in ..... A) Verse. B) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verse. 31. Who does this describe? "I am an official that brings persons violating Church law to court. I have poor skin and the Pardoner is my best friend." A) Parson. B) Monk. C) Summoner. D) Prioress. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Summoner. 32. The War of the Roses is a civil war between these two hoses A) Lancaster and Bartatheon. B) Lancaster and Tudor. C) Tudor and York. D) Lancaster and York. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lancaster and York. 33. Which character wore colorful clothing with flowers? A) Squire. B) Lawyer. C) Nun. D) Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Squire. 34. Choose the SYNONYM for pejorative A) Insulting. B) Sad. C) Complimentary. D) Happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Insulting. 35. Sells indulgences and cheated people of money-ugly, liar, immoral, heartless, thief A) STUDENT-THIS IS THE RIGHT ANSWER. B) Forgive. C) Summoner. D) Miller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) STUDENT-THIS IS THE RIGHT ANSWER. 36. Showing tact, respect, and restraint in speech or behavior A) Stature. B) Discreet. C) Guile. D) Disdainful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discreet. 37. Dresses in a "motley" fashion A) The Prioress (Nun). B) The Reeve. C) The Wife of Bath. D) The Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Merchant. 38. Which character had a forking beard? A) Franklin. B) Monk. C) Cook. D) Merchant. E) Nun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Merchant. 39. From what business and what city did the pilgrims start their journey? A) Three Broomsticks, Hogsmead. B) Tabard Inn, London. C) The Red Lion, London. D) Cheers, Boston. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tabard Inn, London. 40. He was the first poet to be buried in ..... A) The Royal Cemetery. B) The Poets' corner in Westminster Abbey. C) The Tower of London. D) The Hall of Fame. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Poets' corner in Westminster Abbey. 41. Where are the pilgrims going? A) Thomas Beckett's shrine. B) Thomas Wolfe's shrine. C) Graceland. D) Thomas Paine's shrine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas Beckett's shrine. 42. The character who told the first story was? A) Harry Bailey. B) The Monk. C) The Friar. D) The Knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Knight. 43. Which of the following quotations from "The Prologue" is the best example of using key details to make a character stand out? A) "He wore a fustian tunic stained and dark / With smudges where his armor had left mark". B) "No other servant; so he chose to ride.". C) "Just home from service, he had joined our ranks.". D) "The rooms and stables of the inn were wide.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "He wore a fustian tunic stained and dark / With smudges where his armor had left mark". 44. A story with a deep symbolic meaning that is commenting on a society is called ..... A) An archetype. B) An allegory. C) A frame story. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An allegory. 45. What language did you learn during the Medieval Time? A) Latin. B) French. C) Spanish. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latin. 46. Which Canterbury Tales pilgrim married wealthy men and spent their money? A) The Wife of Bath. B) The Squire. C) The Pardoner. D) The Knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Wife of Bath. 47. What instrument does The Miller like to play? A) The violin. B) The guitar. C) The bagpipes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The bagpipes. 48. Whose shrine are the characters going to visit? A) Geoffery Chaucer's. B) Beowulf's. C) King Henry VIII's. D) Thomas Becket's. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Becket's. 49. Old, choleric, and thin A) Reeve. B) Miller. C) Summoner. D) Yeoman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reeve. 50. Through his satire of most of the clergy (church) members in the Prologue, what can we say Chaucer's attitude is about these clergy members and their behavior? A) He is disgusted by the inappropriate and criminal behavior of the church members. B) He is inspired by their Christian attitudes and generosity. C) He is impressed by their devious and criminal behavior. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is disgusted by the inappropriate and criminal behavior of the church members. 51. State the reason for Chanticleer's stories to Pertelote. A) He is proposing in a round about way. B) Chanticleer is bragging about his intelligence, trying to impress her. C) Chanticleer wants to scare her so he can feel like a hero. D) They are Chanticleers's way of trying to convince Pertelote that dreams are real. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are Chanticleers's way of trying to convince Pertelote that dreams are real. 52. V., settle or decide by listening to both sides of an argument A) Benign. B) Duress. C) Obstinate. D) Arbitrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arbitrate. 53. Which quotation best characterizes the Oxford Cleric? A) "He had not found the stone for making gold.". B) "And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.". C) "He never spoke a word more than was need.". D) " still a student though / One who had taken logic long ago, ". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) " still a student though / One who had taken logic long ago, ". 54. The men were so full of ..... in "The Wife of Bath's" tale that they were ultimately responsbile for their own deaths. A) Greed. B) Casitigation. C) Parley. D) Avarice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greed. 55. Who wears bright colors, and has accomplished a lot by 20 years old? A) The Squire. B) The Knight. C) The Yoeman. D) The Nun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Squire. 56. What does the word 'shriven' mean in the context of the text? A) Confession. B) Penance. C) Prayer. D) Fasting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Confession. 57. Which of the following best describes the Plowman? A) Illiterate, in charge of purchasing food for the law school. B) Dresses in green, may be a little too concerned about appearance. C) Honest and hard-working, in harmony with God and nature, proud to do physical labor, brother of the Parson. D) Bright eyes, a little overweight, attends to the pilgrims' needs at the inn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Honest and hard-working, in harmony with God and nature, proud to do physical labor, brother of the Parson. 58. Type of irony in which an unexpected event happens A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational. 59. When did The Black Death begin? A) 1485. B) 1348. C) 1215. D) 1066. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1348. 60. In what month does the "Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales begin? A) January. B) May. C) March. D) April. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) April. ← 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 8Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books