This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Epic > Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales – Quiz 37 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 37 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the importance of the King allowing the Queen to decide the outcome of the knight's life? A) He wants to advocate for women's rights. B) It foreshadows the overall meaning of the text. C) It further emphasizes the reality that what women most desire is power, since her husband is providing it to her. D) It proved that men often allowed their wive's to make major decisions as well. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It further emphasizes the reality that what women most desire is power, since her husband is providing it to her. 2. Chaucer was born in London and belonged to ..... A) An educated middle class. B) The aristocracy. C) The royal family. D) The lower class. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An educated middle class. 3. Which of these lines best explains the central irony in "The Pardoner's Prologue" ? A) "By this fraud have I won me, year by year, / A hundred marks, since I've been pardoner.". B) "When they are dead, for all I think thereon / Their souls may well black-berrying have gone!". C) "For, when I dare not otherwise debate, / Then do I sharpen well my tongue and sting / The man in sermons, and upon him fling / My lying defamations". D) "Thus can I preach against that self-same vice / Which I indulge, and that is avarice.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Thus can I preach against that self-same vice / Which I indulge, and that is avarice.". 4. Death went his way without a word-is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. What quest is the Knight sent on? A) He is to find the Holy Grail. B) He is to find what women most desire. C) He is to find the Excaliber. D) He is to find out what women need. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is to find what women most desire. 6. He was the father of the squire. A) Knight. B) Parson. C) Student. D) Plowman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knight. 7. Where are the two brothers from? A) Italy. B) Thebes. C) Edinburgh. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thebes. 8. Choose the ANTONYM for keen A) Sharp. B) Dull. C) Feminist. D) Journey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dull. 9. He had carbuncles on his face. A) Miller. B) Summoner. C) Yeoman. D) Friar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Summoner. 10. Inform means ..... A) Give informal speech. B) Give information. C) Take the form. D) Give in a form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Give information. 11. Which character conducts Business outside the monastry A) Priest. B) Monk. C) Merchant. D) Friar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monk. 12. In "The Knight's Tale, " what is Arcite and Palamon's relationship in the beginning (7). A) They are cousins and friends. B) They are brothers and friends. C) They are two knights in the same army. D) They are cousins, but not friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are cousins and friends. 13. Eminent means..... A) Musically talented. B) Hilariously funny. C) Famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession. 14. What is the setting of the Wife of Bath's story? A) Britain during the time of King Arthur. B) Canterbury during Chaucer's lifetime. C) The land of the Elf-Queen in days of yore. D) The Caucasus during the reign of Boethius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Britain during the time of King Arthur. 15. Which character had a white beard? A) Merchant. B) Franklin. C) Sergeant at Law. D) Oxford Cleric. E) Nun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Franklin. 16. Which character sings, writes poems, and dances? A) Lawyer. B) Squire. C) Yeoman. D) Merchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Squire. 17. Jessica is not popular, but she sure has a ..... group of friends who are interested in everything from classical music to ancient ruins. A) Superfluous. B) Motley. C) Scrupulous. D) Yeoman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motley. 18. Promptly pays tithes A) The Monk. B) The Parson. C) The Plowman. D) The Reeve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Plowman. 19. Satire is A) Drawing a conclusion based on facts. B) Taking advantage of someone or something for one own's benefit. C) A form of speech which contains an expression of less strength than what would be expected. In satire, the understated language may be ironic. D) Provoking change or reform through poking fun at society's vices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Provoking change or reform through poking fun at society's vices. 20. The ..... of the Middle Ages included cloaks, tunics, and kerchiefs. A) Disdain. B) Virtue. C) Coy. D) Mode. 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