Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 80 (20 MCQs)

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1. What month is it when the pilgrimage begins?

Correct Answer: B) April.

2. In the tale of the Wife of Bath, how would you describe her?

Correct Answer: A) Bold.

3. Has oozing ulcer

Correct Answer: B) The Cook.

4. How many husbands did the "Wife of Bath" have?

Correct Answer: A) 5.

5. " ..... Who in her smiling, modest was and coy; Her greatest oath was but 'By Saint Eloy!" '

Correct Answer: A) Nun/Prioress.

6. To send to a destination on specific business

Correct Answer: D) Dispatch.

7. Financial person for a college-very tricky, quick to point out other peoples faults but not his own

Correct Answer: A) Master.

8. Of or relating to time as opposed to eternity

Correct Answer: E) Temporal.

9. The Parson is a rich man.

Correct Answer: B) False.

10. What moral is the priest trying to teach?

Correct Answer: B) Don't trust flatterers.

11. What does Chaucer describe in the first 18 lines of the Prologue?

Correct Answer: D) The sensory details of the season.

12. The Host's name is

Correct Answer: D) Harry Bailey.

13. Which character in 'The Canterbury Tales' represents the ideal of a medieval knight?

Correct Answer: D) The Knight.

14. The owner of The Madelayne who makes his prisoners "walk the plank"; Smuggled, Dishonest, Drunken, No value for life

Correct Answer: D) The Skipper.

15. The clergy kept all records in and spoke .....

Correct Answer: A) Latin.

16. Society

Correct Answer: C) A large community.

17. What is most likely true about the Friar?

Correct Answer: A) He uses people for money.

18. He practiced what he preached.

Correct Answer: A) Parson.

19. In what language did Chaucer write "The Canterbury Tales" ?

Correct Answer: A) Middle English.

20. Who shows up at the same inn as the narrator?

Correct Answer: A) 29 other pilgrims.