This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Epic > Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales – Quiz 57 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 57 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was Hubert, the Friar, known for? A) His instruments. B) His long beard. C) His singing. D) Being the philosopher. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His singing. 2. What is a Poacher? A) A person who has permission to hunt on someones property. B) A person who hunts or fishes without permission on someone else's property. C) A person who goes in a forest to observe natures animals for fun. D) A person who helps to cure sick animals in the Middle Ages. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person who hunts or fishes without permission on someone else's property. 3. Which of these is situational irony? A) A dog chasing a cat. B) A cat chasing a dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A cat chasing a dog. 4. Gracefully; small and delicate A) Hierarchy. B) Perspective. C) Daintily. D) Coyly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Daintily. 5. The Canterbury Tales is ..... A) A ballad. B) A short narrative poem. C) A long narrative peom. D) An epic poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A long narrative peom. 6. Loved knowledge and learning more than God A) Merchant. B) Student. C) Lawyer. D) Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Student. 7. Hard worker; carts dung; smelly A) Parson. B) Guildsmen. C) Forgive. D) Plowman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plowman. 8. When does The Prologue begin? A) May. B) January. C) April. D) March. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) April. 9. Which of these is a story from The Canterbury Tales? A) The Wife of Bath's Tale. B) The Story of the Goblet of Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Wife of Bath's Tale. 10. What is the Wife of Bath's Prologue about? A) Ovid's Metamorphosis. B) How Women deserve to hold high public offices just like men. C) Her life with her five different husbands. D) A philosophical treatise on the astrolable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her life with her five different husbands. 11. In the tale of the Wife of Bath, what is her most distinguishable feature? A) Red stockings. B) Quiet voice. C) Headdress. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red stockings. 12. What is the definition for diligent? A) Having a pleasant manner. B) To be courageous. C) Conscientious and hard-working. D) Rising above others in rank or achievement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conscientious and hard-working. 13. The knight shows that he has learned what women most want when he ..... A) Keeps his promise to return after a year and a day. B) Agrees to marry the old woman. C) Pays the old woman as much as she asks. D) Asks his wife to decide what form she will take. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asks his wife to decide what form she will take. 14. Scorn, disrespect A) Agility. B) Disdain. C) Virtue. D) Mode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disdain. 15. Chaucer spent most of his life working as a ....., which brought him into contact with people from different classes and regions, which may have influenced his writing. A) Priest. B) Teacher. C) Religious clerk. D) Government official. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Government official. 16. He knew the law by heart. A) Master. B) Lawyer. C) Summoner. D) Friar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lawyer. 17. What is the best explanation for why the Skipper is described as 'an excellent fellow'? A) He is one of the few characters who is devoutly religious. B) He is more skilled at his profession than the other characters. C) It's foreshadowing for the way he rescues another character on the journey to Canterbury. D) He's engaged in immoral behavior, so the description is verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He's engaged in immoral behavior, so the description is verbal irony. 18. In what time period is "The Canterbury Tales" set? A) Anglo-Saxon. B) Middle Ages. C) Renaissance. D) Victorian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Middle Ages. 19. Flawless-a good example-practices what he preaches-very Godly A) Parson. B) Physician. C) Forgive. D) Master. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parson. 20. "Upon the coping of his nose he had A wart, and thereon stood a tuft of hairs, Red as the bristles in an old sow's ears." A) Miller. B) Sailor. C) Cook. D) Doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Miller. ← 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