This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Epic > Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales – Quiz 34 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 34 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who "knew the taverns well in every town and every innkeeper and barmaid too" A) Friar. B) Monk. C) Skipper. D) Knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friar. 2. How does the narrator opens the General Prologue A) Return of Summer. B) Return of Spring. C) Return of Autumn. D) Winter's End. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Return of Spring. 3. Having a person walk 9 marked paces carrying a bar of red-hot iron in his hands to determine if they are guilty of a crime is an example of what? A) A Miracle Play. B) Primogeniture. C) An ordeal. D) Chivalry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An ordeal. 4. Who does this describe? "I am a man that enjoys a drink or two ..... or three ..... I'm also known for my BIG MOUTH and wrestling skills." A) Summoner. B) Prioress. C) Forgive. D) Miller. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Miller. 5. According to the old woman, what women really want is ..... ? A) Money, jewels, and treasure. B) To be flattered and attended to. C) Freedom and entertainment. D) Mastery over their husbands. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mastery over their husbands. 6. What is the occupation of the person described as 'personable'? A) Merchant. B) Franklin. C) Cleric. D) Sergeant at the Law. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Merchant. 7. What is a dyer? A) Someone who changes the color of cloths. B) Someone who sells cloths. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone who changes the color of cloths. 8. He had to be ..... when sneaking out to go to the party after his parents went to bed. A) Devious. B) Ostentatious. C) Keen. D) Incendiary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Devious. 9. What game does the host propose to the pilgrims? A) They tell two stories on the way to Canterbury. B) They tell two stories on the way from Canterbury. C) The winner with the best story gets a free meal at the expense of the other travelers. D) All answer choices are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All answer choices are correct. 10. After he killed his cousin and best friend to be with her, how does Emily feel about Palamon on page 14? A) She is in love with him; he's a noble fighter. B) She honors him as a chivalrous knight. C) She thinks he's ugly and doesn't know his name. D) She wishes Arcite had won the joust. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She thinks he's ugly and doesn't know his name. 11. Geoffrey Chaucer's delightful stories are also satiric ..... against the church. A) Entreaties. B) Pestilences. C) Screeds. D) Confessions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Screeds. 12. What piece of literature made the shift from verse to prose? A) Le Morte de Arthur. B) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. C) Merlin. D) The Canterbury Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Le Morte de Arthur. 13. Which of the following purposes does the description of the Pardoner best serve? A) To emphasize how the church offered the best job opportunities. B) To emphasize the differences between how people in the country and city practiced religion. C) To emphasize the way people employed by church often tricked naive people. D) To emphasize how international travel was becoming easier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To emphasize the way people employed by church often tricked naive people. 14. Can carefully and successfully draft deeds and contracts A) The Yeoman. B) The Man of Law (Serjeant of the Law). C) The Wife of Bath. D) The Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Man of Law (Serjeant of the Law). 15. The three young men in The Pardoner's Tale set off to find ..... A) Riches. B) Their Families. C) Clark's Will to Live. D) Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Death. 16. A heroic couplet is ..... A) A story about a superhero. B) A rhyme about Beowulf. C) Two lines of rhymed iambic pentameter. D) Two married important people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two lines of rhymed iambic pentameter. 17. In The Canterbury Tales, there are ..... pilgrims (excluding Chaucer as the narrator and The Host). A) 29. B) 26. C) 30. D) 27. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 29. 18. What lesson does the Wife of Bath teach through her story with the character of the "hag" ? (The Canterbury Tales) A) The elderly are wise. B) In all ways husbands should obey their wives. C) Only beautiful wives should be respected. D) Boys will be boys. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In all ways husbands should obey their wives. 19. The Miller and Doctor fit into which division of Medieval society? A) Church. B) Merchant class. C) Nobility. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Merchant class. 20. Who is portrayed as the perfect example of chivalry. He has just returned from The Crusades and is dressed plainly with battered armor, rode a fine cared for horse. A) The Pardoner. B) The Summoner. C) The Knight. D) The Monk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Knight. ← 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