This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Epic > Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the author's purpose for writing a passage like the following? An article in a magazine comparing and contrasting waste management in New York City and Mexico City A) To persuade. B) To describe. C) To entertain. D) To inform. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To inform. 2. What is the name of the city where the 'worthy woman' is from? A) York. B) Bath. C) London. D) Canterbury. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bath. 3. Which character from The Canterbury Tales would rather spend time with pretty girls in bars than helping the poor? A) The Knight. B) The Pardoner. C) The Friar. D) The Parson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Friar. 4. What is the language used in 'The Canterbury Tales'? A) Middle English. B) Old English. C) Modern English. D) Latin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Middle English. 5. During the Medieval Period, a whole new class originates this class is A) Nobles and Vassals. B) Peasants and Serfs. C) Merchants & Craftsman. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Merchants & Craftsman. 6. Choose the ANTONYM for avaricious A) Obvious. B) Flirty. C) Generous. D) Greedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Generous. 7. The Wife of Bath's philosophy of marriage shows that she ..... A) Is opinionated with a keen sense of her rights. B) Tends to say one thing and do the opposite. C) Cares only for pleasure, not for right and wrong. D) Trusts too much to thought instead of feeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is opinionated with a keen sense of her rights. 8. Which character in 'The Canterbury Tales' has been married five times? A) The Franklin. B) The Prioress. C) The Nun's Priest. D) The Wife of Bath. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Wife of Bath. 9. What is Characterization? A) The way the plot unfolds. B) Another word for personification. C) The way a fictional character's identity is developed and shown in a story, play, or movie. D) The way a non-fictional character's identity is developed and shown in a story, play, or movie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The way a fictional character's identity is developed and shown in a story, play, or movie. 10. Who was "a wrangler and buffoon, he had a store of tavern stories, filthy in the main" A) Miller. B) Parson. C) Master. D) Reeve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Miller. 11. Steals from his lord's farm A) The Reeve. B) The Man of Law (Serjeant of the Law). C) The Friar. D) The Summoner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Reeve. 12. Who is the "host" Sir Gawain meets? A) Jesus Christ. B) The host. C) King Arthur. D) The Green Knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Green Knight. 13. WHAT IS THE PARDONER'S PROFESSION? A) Con artist. B) Highest position in the church. C) Sort of a preacher. D) Scammer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sort of a preacher. 14. Which of the following purposes does the description of the Sergeant at the Law best serve? A) To emphasize how increased literacy rates improved the legal system. B) To emphasize the way many lawyers overcharged and stole from their clients. C) To emphasize how society includes people who prioritize activities that will result in professional prestige. D) To emphasize the influence the church had over the law. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To emphasize how society includes people who prioritize activities that will result in professional prestige. 15. When one of the rioters in "The Pardoner's Tale" tells another "you can trust me" as he is plotting against the third, this shows the theme of A) Gender roles and expectations. B) Romance/courtly love. C) Religious differences. D) Hypocrisy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hypocrisy. 16. In the Pardoner's Tale, what were the three men looking for? A) A tree. B) Death. C) Gold Florins. D) Another drink. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Death. 17. In "The Miller's Tale, " whom does Alison actually love and want to be with? A) Nicholas. B) Absalon. C) John. D) No one. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nicholas. 18. A rhyming pair of lines BACK TO BACK is called ..... A) Rhyming couplets. B) An allegory. C) A frame story. D) A satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyming couplets. 19. What does The Cook have on his leg? A) A scar. B) A sore. C) A scab. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sore. 20. Does the following sentence use the vocab word correctly or incorrectly? "Clark wasn't very agile when he lost the race." A) Correctly. B) Incorrectly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correctly. 21. Geoffrey Chaucer was all of the following except ..... A) A prisoner. B) A soldier. C) A writer. D) A doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A doctor. 22. Is in debt but tries to at like he is rich A) Monk. B) Merchant. C) Friar. D) Yeoman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Merchant. 23. Which of these metaphors are used in the story? A) Comparing Emily to the month of May and to goddess Venus. B) Comparing Arcite to an animal meant for slaughter. C) Comparing Palamon to the ululating hungry wolves. D) Comparing their prison to a palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comparing Emily to the month of May and to goddess Venus. 24. What is a pardoner? A) A preacher who sold indulgences. B) A preacher who lives in poverty. C) A page. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A preacher who sold indulgences. 25. In a certain way A) Coyly. B) Genteel. C) Pilgrimage. D) Greedily. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Greedily. 26. Which character is NOT going on the pilgrimage? A) King. B) Squire. C) Knight. D) Miller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King. 27. In "The Miller's Tale, " Nicholas is a ..... A) Clerk/student. B) Judge. C) Farmer. D) Parson/preacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clerk/student. 28. Which idea is expressed most clearly in the Prologue? A) The basic evils of mankind. B) The conflicts inherent in society. C) The endless variety of human nature. D) The faults of the church during the middle ages. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The endless variety of human nature. 29. From the beginning of the trip to the very end of the trip, how many stories would each pilgrim tell in total? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 30. Where is the setting of the prologue in The Canterbury Tales? A) Canterbury. B) Kent. C) Scotland. D) Wales. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kent. 31. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is part of which legendary story cycle? A) Greek Mythology. B) Arthurian Legend. C) Homerian Epics. D) King Lear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arthurian Legend. 32. What time of year does the Narrator say that people feel the desire to go on a pilgrimage? A) Summer. B) Spring. C) Winter. D) Autumn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spring. 33. What is the old hag disguised as when she meets the Knight? A) King Arthur's men. B) A group of 24 men. C) A group of 24 ladies. D) The Queen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A group of 24 ladies. 34. Instead of traveling alone, the narrator thought it might be ..... to travel with a group of people. A) Prudent. B) Modest. C) Conscience. D) Mode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prudent. 35. I hunt with my dogs. I think it is a waste of time to do anything else. A) Yeoman. B) Monk. C) Friar. D) Knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monk. 36. Which character was a student? A) Monk. B) Lawyer. C) Franklin. D) Cleric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cleric. 37. The Knight was an honorable man. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 38. Chaucer gives a deep psychological insight of the characters A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 39. Polite, elegant manners; refined behavior A) Accrue. B) Personable. C) Courtliness. D) Sedately. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Courtliness. 40. Which of the following best describes the Nun (the Prioress)? A) Educated and wise. B) Sentimental and refined. C) Funny and loud. D) Popular and outgoing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sentimental and refined. 41. An allegory is ..... A) A story that represents something beyond itself. B) When the characters or story represent historical events. C) Represent abstract or moral ideas. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 42. Chaucer's nickname was "The Father of English Poetry" because he: A) Had many children. B) Was the first ever poet. C) Was the first person to publish in English. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was the first person to publish in English. 43. Which character could sing, dance, and write poetry? A) Knight. B) Nun. C) Squire. D) Franklin. E) Monk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Squire. 44. Who does this describe? "I am the head of a convent. Although I am a nun, I have a love for material possessions." A) Prioress. B) Yeoman. C) Monk. D) Wife of Bath. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prioress. 45. The Pardoner earns money from all of the following activities EXCEPT A) Preaching against greed. B) Begging from church to church. C) Selling papal pardons. D) Making and selling baskets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Making and selling baskets. 46. Which character in 'The Canterbury Tales' is a businessperson involved in trade? A) The Knight. B) The Merchant. C) The Miller. D) The Squire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Merchant. 47. Which character in 'The Canterbury Tales' is a young man who loves chivalry, truth, and honor? A) The Squire. B) The Pardoner. C) The Friar. D) The Knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Squire. 48. What is the profession of the character described as 'worthy'? A) Doctor. B) Summoner. C) Miller. D) Reeve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Miller. 49. Who does this describe? "I am a dashing young knight in training." A) Student. B) Knight. C) Squire. D) Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Squire. 50. He weighed 224 pounds and was good wrestler. A) Summoner. B) Forgive. C) Master. D) Miller. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Miller. 51. What is a pilgrim as it relates to The Canterbury Tales? A) A person taking a journey to a religious shrine or site. B) A person who leaves their country to begin a new life in another country. C) A person taking a long journey for recreation. D) A person who wanders the countryside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A person taking a journey to a religious shrine or site. 52. Federigo tries to win Monna's love by ..... A) Spreading lies about her husband. B) Impressing her with his money and charm. C) Reciting Medieval poetry. D) Feeding her his precious falcon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Impressing her with his money and charm. 53. The member of the clergy given the most admiring, flattering description is the ..... A) Nun. B) Friar. C) Monk. D) Parson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parson. 54. He wore motley clothing. A) Yeoman. B) Merchant. C) Reeve. D) Friar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Merchant. 55. What are the main topics of Canterbury Tales? A) Storytelling. B) Satire and irony. C) Travelling. D) Prayers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Satire and irony. 56. The Prologue of "The Pardoner's Tale" shows that his story will be about A) Marriage. B) Greed. C) Love. D) All of the other answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greed. 57. Who does this describe? "I am an efficient steward of my Lord's manor. I do sometimes steal from him." A) Reeve. B) Franklin. C) Merchant. D) Master. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reeve. 58. Unimportant or empty talk A) Prattle. B) Sycophant. C) Iniquity. D) Transmutation. E) Recrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prattle. 59. Wore bright red stockings A) The Yeoman. B) The (Prioress) Nun. C) The Wife of Bath. D) The Knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Wife of Bath. 60. Type of irony in which the speaker says something unexpected/the opposite of what is meant A) Verbal. B) Situational. C) Dramatic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal. ← 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books