This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Epic > Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 23 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. Choose the ANTONYM for avaricious A) Generous. B) Greedy. C) Flirty. D) Obvious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Generous. 3. 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. 4. Which character in 'The Canterbury Tales' has been married five times? A) The Wife of Bath. B) The Prioress. C) The Franklin. D) The Nun's Priest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Wife of Bath. 5. 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. 6. Who was "a wrangler and buffoon, he had a store of tavern stories, filthy in the main" A) Miller. B) Master. C) Parson. D) Reeve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Miller. 7. Steals from his lord's farm A) The Friar. B) The Man of Law (Serjeant of the Law). C) The Reeve. D) The Summoner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Reeve. 8. Epicurus' son A) Squire. B) Friar. C) Plowman. D) Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Franklin. 9. Who is the "host" Sir Gawain meets? A) Jesus Christ. B) The Green Knight. C) King Arthur. D) The host. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Green Knight. 10. WHAT IS THE PARDONER'S PROFESSION? A) Scammer. B) Con artist. C) Sort of a preacher. D) Highest position in the church. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sort of a preacher. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. In the Pardoner's Tale, what were the three men looking for? A) Death. B) Gold Florins. C) Another drink. D) A tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Death. 14. In "The Miller's Tale, " whom does Alison actually love and want to be with? A) John. B) Nicholas. C) Absalon. D) No one. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nicholas. 15. 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. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. Geoffrey Chaucer was all of the following except ..... A) A writer. B) A prisoner. C) A soldier. D) A doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A doctor. 19. Is in debt but tries to at like he is rich A) Yeoman. B) Monk. C) Friar. D) Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Merchant. 20. 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. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres 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 8Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books