Chaucer Facts
The century in which Chaucer lived
What is the 14th century?
The theatre where we saw the play
What is the Barbican?
What the Merchant is complaining about in his prologue
Who is his wife?
The number of women in The Merchant's Tale
What is two (May and Proserpina)?
January's flattering friend
Who is Placebo?
The type of business Chaucer was born into
What are wine merchants?
The only two students who saw the entire play
Who are Kai and Leann?
Where Damyan ends up at the end of the tale
What is "we don't know"? (alternate answers are still in the tree or the garden)
One of the words January uses to describe May's youth
How May gets up to the pear tree
What is "by climbing on January's back"?
A job that Chaucer held during his lifetime
What are squire, soldier, diplomat, clerk, forester?
The student whose phone died on his way to the Barbican
Who is Alex Annesanti?
What the garden represents
What is "a perverted Garden of Eden" or "January's desire to control May/her sexuality"?
The gift Proserpina declares she will give May to help her win against January
What is a convincing argument?
What January gets wrong with all his mentions of biblical women
What is "they are deceitful, not virtuous"?
Any of the kings who ruled England during Chaucer's life
Who are Edward III, Richard II, and Henry IV?
The three students who arrived to the play late
Who are Kav, George, and Kate?
Which other two Canterbury tales/pilgrims are mentioned in The Merchant's Prologue and Tale?
What are the The Clerk's Tale and the Wife of Bath?
The material May uses to make a copy of the garden key
What is wax?
The reason May pays her first visit to Damyan
What is "January sends her"?
Another one of Chaucer's works that is NOT The Canterbury Tales
What is Anelida and Arcite, Troilus and Criseyde, the Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame....etc etc?
The reason Louis did not come on the trip
What is a "migraine"?
What characterizes the Merchant in his description in the General Prologue
What is "his fashion sense" or "the way he speaks"?
The context of the Wife of Bath's feature in The Merchant's Tale
What is "her prologue about marriage is very long"?
The philosopher whose views on marriage January notably refute
Who is Theofrastes?