This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Epic > Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales – Quiz 83 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Chaucer'S Canterbury Tales Quiz 83 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is a Summoner? A) A person from the Middle Ages who gives counseling to those in need of help. B) A person from the medieval church who calls, or summons, people before the church for their crimes. C) A person from the medieval church who is a peasant and disliked by most of the kingdom. D) A member of the religious clergy, like a priest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person from the medieval church who calls, or summons, people before the church for their crimes. 2. What dose the suffix-able mean? A) The act, practice, or process of doing something. B) Capable of being or worthy of being. C) Pertaining to. D) Incapable of being OR unworthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capable of being or worthy of being. 3. Select the correct word:Act of giving authority to an individual A) Sanguine. B) Absolution. C) Commission. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commission. 4. What question does the old woman ask the knight after they are married in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" ? A) Do you want me to be young and poor or old and wealthy?. B) Why do men want young, wealthy wives instead of older wives?. C) Do you want me to be young and faithless or old and faithful?. D) Do you want me to be young and rule our marriage or old and obedient?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Do you want me to be young and faithless or old and faithful?. 5. The pilgrims were traveling to the shrine of A) John the Baptist. B) St. Peter. C) Paul the Apostle. D) Thomas Becket. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Becket. 6. He'd seen many walk the plank. A) Plowman. B) Yeoman. C) Skipper. D) Friar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skipper. 7. Wrath A) A type of clothing. B) Extreme anger. C) Laziness. D) A type of sea creature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extreme anger. 8. What kind of people are the rioters? A) Upstanding citizens. B) Gamblers and drunks. C) Hardworking people. D) Good people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gamblers and drunks. 9. The Friar and the Summoner are close friends. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. He loved God and people. A) Forgive. B) Plowman. C) Friar. D) Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plowman. 11. Had ulcer on knee A) Summoner. B) Cook. C) Yeoman. D) Miller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cook. 12. If your baseball coach tells you to be diligent at practice, he wants you to do what? A) Clean up your Gatorade bottles. B) Put away the equipment. C) Work hard and give your all. D) Be on time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Work hard and give your all. 13. This pilgrim was truly Christ-like; patient, giving, holy and virtuous, and didn't believe in pomp or glory. He practiced what he preached. A) The Monk. B) The Friar. C) The Parson. D) The Pardoner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Parson. 14. To find out if its true A) Verily. B) Verify. C) Varied. D) Vengeance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verify. 15. Choose the ANTONYM for unseemly A) Polite. B) Rude. C) Embarrasing. D) Friendly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polite. 16. What's the price for disagreeing with the host along the way? A) That person has to travel alone for the rest of the way. B) That person has to pay everyone's expenses. C) The Host will beat him/her. D) That person will have to ride a donkey for the rest of the way. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That person has to pay everyone's expenses. 17. This is the term that means the King keeps much for himself, and the rest he granted to those who had fought faithfully with him ..... A) Horatian. B) Bona Fide. C) Capable of infinity. D) County. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) County. 18. Read the following passage from Chaucer's Prologue. A Haberdasher, a Dyer, a Carpenter, A Weaver and a Carpet-maker were Among our ranks, all in the livery Of one impressive guild-fraternity.What do the details in this passage indicate about an aspect of life in Chaucer's society? A) People who had a low rank in society produced goods for those in higher ranks. B) Workers in some trades organized into mutually supportive associations. C) Women were excluded from many trades in which they might have excelled. D) People who had a high rank in society were not expected to learn a trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Workers in some trades organized into mutually supportive associations. 19. CT is a(n) ..... A) Extended metaphor. B) Allegory. C) Frame story. D) Epic poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frame story. 20. From the 11th to the 14th century, ..... was considered a low-class, vulgar language in Great Britain. A) French. B) English. C) Italian. D) Latin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) English. ← 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