Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 24 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a pardoner?

Correct Answer: A) A preacher who sold indulgences.

2. In a certain way

Correct Answer: B) Greedily.

3. Which character is NOT going on the pilgrimage?

Correct Answer: C) King.

4. In "The Miller's Tale, " Nicholas is a .....

Correct Answer: C) Clerk/student.

5. Which idea is expressed most clearly in the Prologue?

Correct Answer: C) The endless variety of human nature.

6. From the beginning of the trip to the very end of the trip, how many stories would each pilgrim tell in total?

Correct Answer: D) 4.

7. Where is the setting of the prologue in The Canterbury Tales?

Correct Answer: B) Kent.

8. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is part of which legendary story cycle?

Correct Answer: A) Arthurian Legend.

9. What time of year does the Narrator say that people feel the desire to go on a pilgrimage?

Correct Answer: A) Spring.

10. What is the old hag disguised as when she meets the Knight?

Correct Answer: B) A group of 24 ladies.

11. Instead of traveling alone, the narrator thought it might be ..... to travel with a group of people.

Correct Answer: B) Prudent.

12. I hunt with my dogs. I think it is a waste of time to do anything else.

Correct Answer: A) Monk.

13. Which character was a student?

Correct Answer: B) Cleric.

14. The Knight was an honorable man.

Correct Answer: A) True.

15. Chaucer gives a deep psychological insight of the characters

Correct Answer: B) FALSE.

16. Polite, elegant manners; refined behavior

Correct Answer: B) Courtliness.

17. Which of the following best describes the Nun (the Prioress)?

Correct Answer: B) Sentimental and refined.

18. An allegory is .....

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

19. Chaucer's nickname was "The Father of English Poetry" because he:

Correct Answer: C) Was the first person to publish in English.

20. Which character could sing, dance, and write poetry?

Correct Answer: B) Squire.