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    This document provides a 25 question quiz on characters and stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The questions test knowledge on details like which character tells certain tales, occupations of the pilgrims, names and stories referenced in individual tales, and biographical details about the pilgrims. The quiz format and variety of question types assess understanding of themes, plots and pilgrims across several of The Canterbury Tales stories.

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    British Literature test: Beginnings upto Renaissance

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    This document provides a 25 question quiz on characters and stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The questions test knowledge on details like which character tells certain tales, occupations of the pilgrims, names and stories referenced in individual tales, and biographical details about the pilgrims. The quiz format and variety of question types assess understanding of themes, plots and pilgrims across several of The Canterbury Tales stories.

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    TESTS for DLP British Litt.

    Chapters 1-5 Test 4/7


    1. In the Pardoners Tale, three drunken men set out from a bar to find and
    kill ______.
    (a) Summoner (b) a fox (c) Death (d) Satan
    2. Whose tale qualifies as a medieval sermon?
    (a) Parson (b) Monk (c) Summoner (d) Pardoner
    3. Who of the following tells tales set in the Orient?
    (a) Sergeant of Law (b) Squire (c) Neither (d) Both
    4. Who marries Emelye in the Knights Tale?
    (a) Palamon (b) Arcite (c) Creon (d) Theseus
    5. Whose tale involves a talking falcon who has been abandoned by her false
    lover?
    (a) Manciple (b) Squire (c) Wife of Bath (d) None of these
    6. Who of the following does not tell the tale of a patient, suffering woman?
    (a) Sergeant of Law (b) Clerk (c) Miller (d) Doctor of Physic
    7. What does the Prioresss name Eglentyne mean?
    (a) beautiful maiden (b) sweet briar (c) pearl (d) rosemary
    8. What do women desire most, according to the Wife of Bath?
    (a) beauty (b) love (c) reverence (d) sovereignty
    9. What is the source of the Wife of Baths tale?
    (a) Roman de la Rose (b) Decameron (b) The Bible (d) Ovids
    Metamorphoses
    10.Who is described as An outrider, who loved his venery?
    (a) Yeoman (b) Franklin (c) Monk (d) Miller
    11.Which philosopher is cited at the end of the General Prologue in support of
    the argument that it is best to speak plainly and tell the truth rather than
    to lie?
    (a) Plato (b) Aristotle (c) St. Augustine (d) St. Thomas Aquinas
    12.Which pilgrim was clad in red and blue lined with taffeta and with thin silk?
    (a) Monk (b) Doctor of Physic (c) Shipman (d) Merchant
    13.How many mortal battles had the knight fought?
    (a) fifteen (b) twenty-five (c) twenty-two (d) fifty
    14.Which character looked like a fish out of water as he sat on his horse?
    (a) The Monk (b) The Cook (c) The Shipman (d) The Sergeant of Law
    15.How many tales were originally planned in The Canterbury Tales?
    (a) 90 (b) 120 (c) 150 (d) 200
    16.Which pilgrims tale is based on Boccaccios courtly romance Teseida?
    (a) The Knight (b) The Squire (c) The Prioress (d) The Wife of Bath

    17.Which object does the Pardoner claim is Virgin Marys veil?


    (a) a kerchief (b) towel (c) a bedsheet (d) a pillowcase
    18.What is the name of the rooster, who is the protagonist in the Nuns
    Priests Tale?
    (a) Reynard (b) Nicholas (c) Chanticleer (d) Isengrim
    19.Which pilgrim came from Dartmouth?
    (a) The Reeve (b) The Shipman (c) The Manciple (d) The Merchant
    20.Which of the following pilgrims did not tell a fabliau?
    (a) Miller (b) Cook (c) Summoner (d) all of these
    21.Which character pays his tithes ful faire and well and lives in pees and
    perfect charitee?
    (a) The Plowman (b) The Franklin (c) The Parson (d) The Reeve
    22.Who is the charlatan who passes off pigs bones as saints relics?
    (a) The Summoner (b) The Pardoner (c) The Friar (d) The Monk
    23.Which character believes that the caricature of the carpenter in the
    Millers Tale is aimed at him and counters with his own story that mocks
    the arrogance of the Miller?
    (a) The Franklin (b) The Yeoman (c) The Reeve (d) The Manciple
    24.Which pilgrim tells the story of a knight named Arveragus, his wife
    Dorigen, and her suitor Aurelius, who is asked by Dorigen to remove the
    rocks of Brittany coast?
    (a) The Summoner (b) The Sailor (c) The Sergeant of Law (d) The
    Franklin
    25.Which pilgrim tells the story of the maiden Virginia who is killed by her
    father to prevent the judge Apius from ravishing her?
    (a) The Merchant (b) The Physician (c) The Miller (d) The Manciple

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