This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Epic > Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales – Quiz 59 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 59 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. True of False? In "The Pardoner's Tale" the old man REFUSES to help the men. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 2. Which historical situation redistributed some wealth and created more job opportunities during the Middle Ages? A) The Crusades. B) The decline in the power of the church. C) The establishment of factories. D) The Black Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Black Death. 3. It is ironic that the Pardoner preaches against avarice because he is ..... A) Especially greedy. B) A pious man. C) A friend of the Summoner's. D) Rude to the host. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Especially greedy. 4. Supposed to be playing in a cloister A) The Friar. B) The Monk. C) The Parson. D) The Plowman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Monk. 5. This religious woman wears garments collectively called a "habit" . This may include a tunic, belt and veil. A) Princess. B) Queen. C) Nun. D) Wife of Bath. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nun. 6. He carried a signed baseball card in his wallet as a ..... every time he went to a Braves Game. A) Talisman. B) Coy. C) Accost. D) Undulate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Talisman. 7. Which character served in the government? A) Nun. B) Franklin. C) Yeoman. D) Friar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Franklin. 8. According to the Queen, what does the Knight have to do to keep his life? A) Marry an old woman. B) Beg forgiveness from all the women in the kingdom. C) Travel for a year and a day before he can return. D) Find out what women really want. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Find out what women really want. 9. Whose shrine were the pilgrims visiting? A) St. Thomas More. B) St. Thomas a Becket. C) St. George. D) St. Andrew. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) St. Thomas a Becket. 10. Eats onions, garlic, and leeks; ugly; scares people; condones/forgives sins for a handsome bribe A) Monk. B) Merchant. C) Summoner. D) Skipper. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Summoner. 11. Extremely wealthy, been married 5 times-gossiper, very social A) Worthy woman. B) Prioress. C) Plowman. D) Master. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Worthy woman. 12. He brought provisions for lawyers. A) Miller. B) Friar. C) Master. D) Reeve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Master. 13. What brings the characters together in the Prologue from The Canterbury Tales? A) They all make their living through work for the church. B) They are making a religious journey to a cathedral. C) They are escaping religious oppression in England. D) They are all members of the Knight's entourage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are making a religious journey to a cathedral. 14. The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context politics. A) Irony. B) Alliteration. C) Courtly love. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Satire. 15. Where does the Friar prefer to hang out? A) Taverns. B) With lepers. C) Helping the poor. D) The monastery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taverns. 16. Other than his military prowess, what made the knight such a great knight? A) He was as modest. B) He always said boorish things. C) He fought solely for the favors of women. D) He fought in only a few places. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was as modest. 17. Which of the following purposes do the descriptions of the Five Tradesmen (Haberdasher, Dyer, Carpenter, Weaver, and Carpet-maker) best serve? A) To emphasize how people were starting to specialize in a certain trade instead of knowing how to do a little bit of every trade. B) To emphasize how people who weren't part of the nobility were gaining more financial and political power. C) To poke fun at a typical marital relationship. D) To emphasize how laborers avoided paying taxes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To emphasize how people who weren't part of the nobility were gaining more financial and political power. 18. Superlative in quality; supreme A) Betray. B) Clemency. C) Prescience. D) Sovereign. E) Temporal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sovereign. 19. Which of the following does not describe The Canterbury Tales? A) Satirical. B) Frame Story. C) Medieval. D) Scary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scary. 20. Chaucer probably borrowed from Boccaccio's Decameron the framework to string together a collection of stories A) TRUE. B) FALSE. 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