Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 50 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which character follows the code of chivalry?

Correct Answer: A) Knight.

2. Action, process, or the result of an action or process

Correct Answer: A) Shortage.

3. What did the manciple do?

Correct Answer: A) Made purchases for thirty lawyers.

4. What is the occupation of the character described as 'churlish'?

Correct Answer: A) Plowman.

5. Stubborn

Correct Answer: B) Obstinate.

6. I would rather spend my money on books than eat.

Correct Answer: A) Oxford Scholar.

7. Why are all of the characters together in The Canterbury Tales?

Correct Answer: B) They are making a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral.

8. The miser was ..... He hoarded his money and never spent it or gave any to charity.

Correct Answer: A) Avaricious.

9. What is direct characterization in literature?

Correct Answer: B) The process of describing a character's traits or qualities directly through explicit statements or descriptions.

10. Choose the SYNONYM for coy

Correct Answer: A) Flirty.

11. Who would steal money from his friends to buy a book and "thanks them thus for paying for his learning" ?

Correct Answer: B) Oxford Cleric.

12. Entertain means .....

Correct Answer: C) To make people enjoy something.

13. Which Canterbury Tales pilgrim prepares food and has an ulcer on his knee?

Correct Answer: D) The Cook.

14. Any trip made to visit a respected place or person to seek something important.

Correct Answer: D) Pilgrimage.

15. She has ..... eyesight and read the newspaper from across the room!

Correct Answer: A) Keen.

16. "He knew the taverns well ..... Better than lepers, beggars and that crew"

Correct Answer: B) Friar.

17. Who "sent prisoners home, they walked the plank"

Correct Answer: B) Skipper.

18. Courageously

Correct Answer: A) Valiantly.

19. The Canterbury Tales is an example of a story within a story or a

Correct Answer: D) Frame narrative.

20. They usually only had one set of clothing that was almost never washed.

Correct Answer: C) Peasants.