Prologue
What is Canterbury, England?
Geoffrey Chaucer is most famous as the author of this piece of literature.
What are The Canterbury Tales?
The pardoner is known to use his sermons to make people feel guilty about this particular sin.
What is greed?
The Wife of Bath is known to have had this many husbands.
What is five?
This language was the primary one spoken amongst the people of the medieval period.
What is Middle English?
The prologue of the Canterbury Tales is set up as this type of narrative.
What is a frame narrative?
Chaucer was notable because he developed writing in this language rather than in French or Latin which was most common at the time.
What is Middle English?
What is killing one another?
This knight must learn this in less than a year in order to save himself from execution.
What is what women most desire?
This major event lead to the death of nearly 25 million people.
What is the black death or bubonic plague?
The characters of the story decide to have this kind of competition where the winner will get a free meal paid for by all of the other travelers.
What is a story-telling competition?
What is the upper middle class?
The motto of the pardoner and of his tale is radix malorum est cupiditas, which is latin for this.
What is "greed is the root of all evil".
The young man ventures into this place and meets an old woman who provides him with the answer to the question he so desperately seeks.
What is the forest or woods?
The people of the period were typically a part of this social hierarchy.
What is the feudal system?
The characters of the prologue are making a pilgrimage to see the shrine of this holy martyr.
Who is Saint Thomas a Beckett?
Geoffrey Chaucer was born sometime in this decade.
What are the 1340's?
What is on of their good friends has been taken by death?
The man learns that this is the answer to the queen's question.
What is to be in charge of their husbands and lovers?
Most literary works during the medieval period were written in these two languages.
What are French and Latin?
The characters all meet in this inn before setting out on their pilgrimage together. (Bonus point for the name of the town.)
What is the Tabard Inn in Southwark, England.
Chaucer served as a soldier and a diplomat in this major conflict.
What is the 100 years war?
The three young rioters are informed that their is a pot of treasure or gold under this type of tree.
What is an oak tree?
The knight see these briefly before they vanish just before he meets the old woman who answers his question.
What are dancing ladies?
During the medieval period, in 1215 CE, the signing of this document made everyone subject to the law, even the King of England.
What is the magna carta?