Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 64 (20 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. What is the prize of the contest?

Correct Answer: A) Having their bill paid by the other pilgrims.

2. Which two pilgrims does the narrator characterize as obsessed with money?

Correct Answer: C) The Reeve and the Pardoner.

3. The pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales are travelling to Canterbury to visit

Correct Answer: D) The shrine of St Thomas Becket.

4. Which of the following words best describes the Pardoner?

Correct Answer: A) Hypocritical.

5. Height; level of achievement

Correct Answer: B) Stature.

6. The way the author develops characters

Correct Answer: A) Characterization.

7. In a dignified manner

Correct Answer: B) Sedately.

8. What does the Prioress seem most concerned with?

Correct Answer: B) Being perceived by others as ladylike and refined.

9. Showing contempt or lack of respect

Correct Answer: D) Disdainful.

10. The Manciple went to college and has a degree.

Correct Answer: B) False.

11. What caused the end of feudalism?

Correct Answer: D) The plagues.

12. Lying; the act of not being truthful

Correct Answer: C) Prevarication.

13. The summoner and pardoner are very corrupt.

Correct Answer: A) True.

14. What answer does the hag give the Knight?

Correct Answer: A) Women should be equal to their husbands.

15. Chaucer believed in God's love and mercy, but

Correct Answer: D) All of these.

16. Loved his position more than God

Correct Answer: C) Lawyer.

17. People would describe me as having a gap-tooth smile & one who wears expensive clothing ..... Who am I?

Correct Answer: A) Wife of Bath.

18. Which character has an excellent memory?

Correct Answer: D) Lawyer.

19. Which character had sympathetic and tender feelings?

Correct Answer: D) Nun.

20. What kind of wedding did the knight and the old woman have?

Correct Answer: B) They had a private wedding.