Middle Ages
Prologue
Vocabulary
Wife of Bath's Tale
Misc.
100
A pyramid system based on hierarchy.
What is Feudalism
100
Chaucer writes a long introduction of characters.
What is the main objective of The Prologue?
100
Vocabulary word that means calmly.
What is sedately.
100
The knight begs and pleads for the old woman to ask him to do anything else.
What is the knight's response to the woman's demand for him to marry her?
100
Giving birth to children, doing household chores, and managing the estate while husbands were at battle.
What is the role of women in Medieval Society.
200
An idealized attitude toward women and an attitude that created romantic literature.
What is chivalry.
200
An introduction to a cast of characters by Chaucer.
What is the purpose of The Prologue.
200
Someone who is comfortable with everyone.
What is personable
200
The knight takes a maiden's virginity by force.
What is the Knight's crime?
200
vocabulary word meaning power
What is sovereignty?
300
Death for a cause.
What is martyrdom.
300
To visit the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket.
What is the reason the pilgrims are traveling to Canterbury?
300
The vocabulary word that means to add.
What is accrue.
300
His sentence is death, unless he can find out what women most desire.
What is the knight's sentence when given a second chance?
300
The judge of the story contest.
Wh0 is the Host?
400
It became the basis for English constitutional law.
What is the Magna Carta
400
To win a free meal and entertain each other.
What is the reason the pilgrims agree to tell tales during the journey?
400
the vocabulary word that means disease.
What is malady
400
She will tell him the answer to the riddle if he will promise to do the next thing she asks
What is the bargain the knight and the old woman strike?
400
to pass down as an inheritance
What is to bequeath?
500
It caused a labor shortage due to the deaths of the majority of the serfs.
What is the Black Death.
500
a veteran of several pilgrimages and marriages.
Who is the Wife of Bath?
500
a serious request.
What is an entreaty
500
The knight wants his wife to decide.
What is the knight's response to the final choice the woman offers him at the end of the tale?
500
an ugly old woman
What is a crone?
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