The Canterbury TalesTest Guide

Multiple Choice Reading Comprehension: 1. At what time of year does the pilgrimage take place? 2. In the General Prologue, Chaucer relied heavily on 3. In The Prologue, Chaucers main objective is to 4. The pilgrims are traveling to Canterbury because 5. The pilgrims agree to tell tales during the journey to 6. The nightingale and the Squire sing to 7. How does Chaucer imply that the Cooks dishes are not appetizing? 8. The Wife of Bath is a 9. During the Middle-Ages, the wedding vows were exchanged at the 10. Chaucers characterizations of the Prioress, the Monk, and others connected with the Church are mainly 11. The member of the clergy given the most admiring, flattering description is the 12. According to the Hosts plan, each pilgrim would tell 13. Which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with the Latin words meaning Love Conquers All? 14. Which Pilgrim is a young man who stays awake most of the night? 15. Which pilgrim apparently knows and uses love potions? 16. Which pilgrim did a brisk business in fake holy relics? 17. Which pilgrim acquired so much wealth that he can lend his lord money? 18. Which character broke with tradition by riding Easily on an ambling horse? The Pardoners Tale 19. The rioters go looking for Death because they 20. In The Pardoners Tale, Death is allegorically portrayed as 21. Which of the following statements best describes the end of the tale 22. After they abandon their search for Death, the rioters murder one another. This is an example of 23. Which of the following words best describes the Pardoners treatment of the Host? 24. At the beginning of this story, three rioters are sitting 25. An old man by the wayside tells the rioters that they will find Death 26. The trio follow the old mans advice and find 27. As soon as the youngest rioter leaves for town, the other two make a plan to 28. The rioter who goes to town returns with 29. In town, the youngest man talks to 30. The Pardoners tale focuses mainly on the subject of 31. The Pardoner upsets the Host The Wife of Baths Tale 32. The noble class is satirized in The Wife of Baths Tale Prologue for all of the following except: 33. Which of the following is satirized in The Wife of Baths Tale Prologue? 34. In The Wife of Baths Tale, the knights quest is 35. According to this tale, what women really want is 36. The knight shows that he has learned what women want most when he 37. The old woman speaks eloquently about 38. The Wife of Baths Tale begins with a satire of? 39. How much time does the knight have to learn what women most desire? 40. What does the knight learn when he asks women what they want most? 41. In the Wife of Baths story about keeping secrets, Chaucer satirizes what female stereotype? 42. According to the old woman, a true gentleman is a person who Literary and Structural Elements 43. Chaucers characterization of the pleasure-loving Franklin is not negative because he 44. Which of these quotations from the Prologue is an example of direct characterization? 45. Which of the following lines is an example of direct characterization? 46. Which of the following lines is an example of indirect characterization? 47. Which of the following lines is an example of direct characterization? 48. Which of the following lines is an example of indirect characterization? 49. Under the pseudo-science of physiogamy, a lily-white neck indicated 50. Under the pseudo-science of physiogamy, the color red indicated 51. Under the pseudo-science of physiogamy, the color yellow indicated 52. Under the pseudo-science of physiogamy, a wide brow (forehead) indicated 53. The old mans comment to the three rioters that Death isnt one to hide for all your prating is an example of what type of irony?

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Dramatic irony occurred in The Pardoners Tale when. It is ironic that the Pardoner preaches against avarice, because he is What is ironic about the attitude that the old man has toward Death? Which of the following quotations from The Wife of Baths Tale is a couplet? After the rioters abandon their search for Death, they murder one another. This act is an example of Which of the structural elements used by Chaucer is demonstrated in the following lines? When in April the sweet showers fall/And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all. 60. Which of the structural elements used by Chaucer is demonstrated in the following lines? A privy thief, they call him Death,/Who kills us all round here. 61. When Chaucer writes, When also Zephyrus with his sweet breath..., he demonstrates the use of 62. Which of the structural elements used by Chaucer is demonstrated in the following lines? Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head/And honor it. 63. The Nuns name, Madam Eglantyne, is an example of Character comparisons (You must get all parts of the question correct for credit) 64. Which characters in The General Prologue were satirized for bourgeois pretentiousness? 65. Which characters in The General Prologue were idealized characters? 66. Which characters of those who labor were satirized because avarice motivated their use of knowledge? 67. Which characters in the General Prologue were models of Christian behavior? 68. Which characters in The General Prologue did Chaucer appreciate for their questioning of tradition? 69. Which characters in The General Prologue did Chaucer negatively satirize the most for their hypocrisy? 70. Which characters in The General Prologue did Chaucer satirize for their lecherousness? Identify the character described in the following quotes. (Answers may be used more than once) 71. He was an easy man in penance-giving/Where he could hope to make a decent living: 72. She had a flowing mantle that concealed/Large hips, her heels spurred sharply under that. 73. There was no manly attribute he lacked,/Whats more he was a merry-hearted man. 74. Her greatest oath was only By St. Loy! 75. And though so much distinguish, he was wise/And in his bearing modest as a maid. 76. He hated cursing to extort a fee,/Nay rather he preferred beyond a doubt/Giving to poor parishioners. 77. He loved so hotly that till dawn grew pale/He slept as little as a nightingale. 78. He could dictate defenses or draft deeds;/No one could pinch a comma from his screeds. 79. Had hair as yellow as wax,/Hanging down smoothly like a hank of flax. In driblets fell his locks behind his head 80. She certainly was very entertaining,/Pleasant and friendly in her ways, and straining/To counterfeit a courtly kind of grace. 81. Many a draught of vintage, red and yellow,/Hed drawn at Bordeaux, while the trader snored. 82. The cause of every malady you'd got/He knew, and whether dry, cold, moist, or hot. 83. Many a dainty horse he had in stable./His bridle, when he rode, a might hear/Jingling in a whistling wind. 84. Loving God best with all his heart and mind/And then his neighbor as himself 85. He'd sewed a holy relic on his cap; His wallet lay before him on his lap,/Brimful of pardons come from Rome all hot./He had the same small voice a goat has got. 86. Then he would shout and jabber as if crazy,/And wouldn't speak a word except in Latin/When he was drunk, such tags as he was pat in. 87. his horse was thinner than a rake, And he was not too fat, I undertake. 88. But what a pityso it seemed to me,/That he should have an ulcer on his knee. 89. so had set/His wits to work, none knew he was in debt Identify which estate was being satirized in the following lines. 90. He had grown rich and had a store of treasure well tucked away, yet out it came to pleasure his lord with subtle loans or gifts. 91. He knew the taverns well in every town and every innkeeper and barmaid too. 92. He was a proper forester, I guess. 93. Then they ought; to called Madam is a glorious thought, and so is going to church and being seen having you mantle carried, like a queen. 94. And by his flatteries and prevarication made monkeys of the priest and congregation. Identify which of the Seven Deadly Sins each of the following characters is most guilty of. 95. The Nun 96. The Pardoner 97. The Guildsmens Wives 98. The Lawyer 99. The Summoner 100. The Oxford Cleric