Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 75 (20 MCQs)

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1. How was personification used in the story?

Correct Answer: A) Fortune is personified so the characters can have someone to blame for their circumstances.

2. What instrument is described as 'stringed instrument played by cranking a wheel'?

Correct Answer: A) Hurdy-gurdy.

3. How did Palamon and Arcite first meet Emily?

Correct Answer: A) She was singing in the garden down below.

4. Enjoys hunting

Correct Answer: A) The Monk.

5. How did Chaucer impact the literary world?

Correct Answer: B) He wrote about everyday people.

6. "He was a truly perfect, gentle ..... "

Correct Answer: A) Knight.

7. Thrifty; economical; spending very little money

Correct Answer: B) Frugal.

8. Why are the travelers going to Canterbury?

Correct Answer: B) They are on a pilgrimage to see the relics of St. Thomas Beckett.

9. What do the twenty-nine pilgrims in the group, taken all together, represent?

Correct Answer: C) All the classes of English society.

10. "In towns he knew the taverns, every one, And every good host and each barmaid too ..... Better than begging lepers, these he knew"

Correct Answer: C) Friar.

11. They were written in Middle English by Geoffrey Choice in the 16th century

Correct Answer: B) No, in the 14th century.

12. Discreet

Correct Answer: C) Careful about what one saysor does; prudent.

13. Chaucer criticizes religious figures like The Friar who are not who they are supposed to be.

Correct Answer: A) True.

14. Dirk

Correct Answer: B) A dagger.

15. What is code-switching?

Correct Answer: B) Changing the way you speak depending on the person you are speaking to, or the situation you are in.

16. "He like a fat swan best, and roasted whole ..... His palfrey was as brown as a berry."

Correct Answer: D) Monk.

17. Made himself look busier than he was

Correct Answer: D) Sargent at Law.

18. What arrangement does the Host suggest for the pilgrims?

Correct Answer: B) That each pilgrim tells two tales, and the pilgrim who tells the best tale will receive a free meal upon return to the Tabard Inn.

19. Why do the characters tell stories in The Canterbury Tales?

Correct Answer: C) To pass the time and compete to win a free supper.

20. What did the pardoner sell?

Correct Answer: C) Relics.