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What was the point of the story Midas?
What is women can't keep secrets?
How many husbands has the wife of bath had throughout her life?
5
The kind of story that the Canterbury Tales exemplifies
A Frame Story
In what time period did this story take place?
What is Arthur's time?
The reasons to tell the tales while travelling
For entertainment
What choice did the old hag give to the young knight at the end of the tale?
for her to become young and beautiful, but unfaithful or to stay ugly and gross and remain faithful to him
Why does the Wife believe she is an authority on marriage?
Because she has had five husbands, the first of which being when she was very young.
Author of The Canterbury Tales.
Chaucer
What was the knight's punishment handed down by the king?
What is death?
Who saved the knight from death and why?
The queen instead took him and sent him on a quest to find out what all women want. If his answer was right, he would live.
Who are the two main characters in The Wife of Bath's Tale?
Who are the Knight and the Hag?
Where they are headed on the pilgrimage.
The Shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral
What was the message that the old woman told the knight to tell the queen?
The message was that women desire to have control over their husbands and land. To be the “master.”
How many of the Wife of Bath's husbands are considered to be "good?"
the first 3 of her husbands
Where the tale begins
The Tabard Inn in London
What did the knight do to receive the punishment of death?
What is sexually abuse a young woman?