Canterbury Tales Test Answers – Flashcards

Moral tale illustrating a point and often used to embellish a sermon

Allegorical tale in which animals act in human ways

Short, humorous tale, often bawdy story of lower class life

Tale of chivalric adventure and action

Figurative narrative conveying a veiled meaning

workers and peasants

conventional kind of literature ; means of classifying

might include interpretation of the visions of a narrator

revealing monologue

tale of magic, fairies, and folklore

harry bailey

i tell a tale set in king arthur’s time

my yellow hair is my favorite . i think it looks stylish as i ride my horse.

making an elegant chicken stew is my forte; its too bad i have an ucler on my knee

i am the best example of a good and faithful laborer

Ive made history in various battles. Im “true, perfect, and gentles”

the narrator

Prone to excessive sorrow and showy weeping, i care for all creatures

Astrology is my science of choice. i love gold best

the little money i do find on books even though some would say i should spend more on food or clothing

The archbishop of Canterbury position was dissolved in the 16th century

Thomas a becket was a very pious Cleri prior to his appointment to Canterbury

priests sometimes wore hair shirts because they were fashionable

in Chaucer’s day, it would have taken three to five days on horseback to reach Canterbury

henry 11 and becket quarreled over the collection of money for pardons

Canterbury is about two hundred miles north of London

Chaucer set “The Canterbury Tales” during the heigh of the pilgrimages in the late 1100’s

Thomas a Becket was poisoned to death

Henry II was a verry able administrator but had a terrible temper

Henry was full of remorse after Beckets death, allowing himself to be flogged

The Canterbury tales was written in the

The prioress is distinguised by the fact that she

Which word best describes the narrator in the prologue?

Chaucers characterization of the prioress, the monk, and others connected with the church are mainly

Which of the following quotations from “The prologue” is the best example of imagery ?

The pardoners pious story reveals his

The pardoner earns money from all of the following activities except

in the “pardoners tale”, death is portrayed as

it is ironic that the pardoner preaches against avarice because he is

The Canterbury tales is a collection of stories written in

The knights quest is

According to this tale, what women really want is

the old woman speaks eloquently about

The wife of bath tells her tale to do all of the following except

the knight shows that he has learned what women want most when he

What does the knight learn when he asks women what they want most

The pilgrims agree to tell tales during the journey to

the pilgrims are traveling to Canterbury because

In “The prologue”, chacers main objective is to

The Canterbury Tales is an example of an estate satire. The three estates included all the following except

Before 1066, the english language is referred to as

Which member of the clergy receives the most admiring, flattering description?

Every level of society in medieval England is represented among the

What do you know about the woman from Bath, based on these lines from the prologue

the number of pilgrims traveling to the shrine is

How long would it have taken the pilgrims to travel from southwark to Canterbury in Chaucer’s day?

according to the host’s plan, each pilgrim would tell

the pilgrims begin their journey in

An old woman the wayside tells the rioters that they will find death

of the many answers the knight hears, which one is closest to the wife of bath’s opinion

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is particularly critical when dealing with the abuses of the

What happened in 1066 that caused such upheavel

What is the reward for the best story, as decided by Henry Bailey

The conclusion to the Pardoner’s Tale is best described as an example of

As soon as the youngest rioter leaves for town, the other two make a plan to

The prologue is an example of

Why did Chaucer stop writing The Canterbury Tales

Where are the pilgrims going in the Prologue

The wife of bath is a

In the wife of bath’s story about keeping secrets, what secret does Midas reveal to his wife

Which pilgrim is a young man who stays awake most of the night? He serves his father

In town, the youngest man talks to

After 1066, the english language is referred to as

Which of the following quotations from “The wife of bath’s tale” is a couplet?

A couplet is two consecutive lines of poetry that

The number of tales told is

Which pilgrim did a brisk business in fake holy relics

How does Chaucer imply that the Cook’s dishes are not appetizing?

How far is Canterbury Cathedral from London?

Chaucer often used this type of meter

The narrator says he plans to “give and account of all their words and dealings/ using their very phrases as they fell” For which kind of characterization would an author provide such detail

What is Chaucer’s main reason for writing about the pilgrimage in the Prologue

Where is Chaucer buried

During the middle ages, french was the language of the ruling class, Latin was regularly used by the church and universities, and english was

the narrator is portrayed as

the purpose of the pilgrimage is

What does the narrator mean in saying these lines from the Prologue
” But first i beg of you, in courtesy/ not to condemn me as unmannerly ? if i speak plainly and with no concealing’s/ and give account of all their words and dealings

What contributed most to the triumph of the English language toward the end of the middle ages

Which of the following quotations from the prologue is an example of direct characterization?

Which pilgrim apparently knows and uses love potions

In ____ , words have natural genders

Geoffrey Chaucer helped Middle english gain respectability because

The MIller is very skillful at all of the following except

What is Chaucer’s appellation

The three young men promise to

When the three hear about the plague, they swear that they will

Which pilgrim is NOT a member of guild?

In order to reveal his characters, Chaucer uses all of the following techniques except

Characters in an allegory tend to be

Whom do the pilgrims accept as their leader in the prologue