Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 53 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which is the best description of the Oxford Cleric (the Clerk)?

Correct Answer: D) He likes to spend the money his friends give him on books and prays for them as a sign of gratitude.

2. What are the years of the Middle Ages period?

Correct Answer: C) 1066-1485 AD.

3. The Merchant was an Expert in what?

Correct Answer: C) Dabbling exchanges.

4. When did Pope Innocent III declare the ordeal system to be irrational?

Correct Answer: B) 1215.

5. His name is Hubert; he associates with women and taverners; he uses monetary religion for profit. Also not true to his title

Correct Answer: D) Friar.

6. Which group of pilgrims represent the emerging middle class?

Correct Answer: A) The Guildsmen.

7. He rode last in line on the trip to Canterbury.

Correct Answer: D) Reeve.

8. Artfully shy or reserved; bashfully flirtatious

Correct Answer: C) Coyly.

9. "The summer's heat had burned is visage; And certainly he was a good fellow."

Correct Answer: B) Sailor.

10. What time of year does this trip take place?

Correct Answer: B) Spring.

11. Some considered the Wife of Bath an old .....

Correct Answer: A) Crone.

12. "Carried a coral rosary with a locket inscribed in Latin, "Love conquers All."

Correct Answer: D) Nun.

13. What did the youngest rioter do while he was in town?

Correct Answer: D) Buy bread, wine and poison.

14. A robbery at a police station would be an example of which type of irony?

Correct Answer: C) Situational.

15. How is The Miller described?

Correct Answer: B) Red beard with a wart on his nose.

16. Was the parson kind to others?

Correct Answer: A) Yes.

17. Stereotype of the perennial student; making a living was less important than reading books

Correct Answer: B) Oxford Cleric.

18. He was a lover ..... a lad of fire.

Correct Answer: D) Squire.

19. ..... is actually, a series of wars fought because England wouldn't give up its possessions in France.

Correct Answer: D) The Hundred Years War.

20. Prefers company of tavern fold to poor "scum"

Correct Answer: B) The Friar.