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Literature
Prologue
Pardoner's Tale
the Wife of Bath's Tale
Miscellaneous
100
This is the period during which The Canterbury Tales was written
What is the Medieval Period, or Middle Ages
100
A religious journey to a holy place;
What is a pilgrimage?
100
This is what the pardoner does for a living.
What is sell pardons that have supposedly come from the Pope so people can avoid eternal damnation for sins they weren't that sorry about in their hearts!
100

The number of times the Wife of Bath has been married.

What is 5

100

She was very sentimental about her little dogs and other small animals.

Who is the Prioress.  

200
The author's name.
What is Geoffrey Chaucer?
200

This is where the pilgrims are traveling to from the inn.

What is the shrine of St. Thomas a' Becket?

also acceptable:  Canterbury Cathedral

200

How many youngsters/rioters were featured in the story?

What is three?

200

The length of time the knight had to find an answer.  

What is a year and a day?

200

Chaucer is said to have been born on or around this year. (A range of +- 2 will be acceptable)

What is 1342?

300
A story within a story.
What is a frame story (or frame narrative)?
300
The prologue, itself, is considered a masterpiece. "It is the concise portrait of an entire nation, high and low, old and young, male and female, lay and clerical, learned and ignorant, rogue and righteous, land and sea, town and country, but without extremes." Where does the entire prologue take place?
What is The Tabard Inn?
300

The moral of the Pardoner's tale.

What is the love of money is the root of all evil?

radix mallorum est cupiditas

300

The condition that the crone set before helping the knight?

What is he must swear to do whatever she next asks of him?

300

This member of the clergy liked to hunt.

Who is the monk.  

400
The Canterbury Tales was written in what form of English?
What is Middle English?
400

The number of pilgrims the narrator joins at the inn.

What is 29?

400

The bits of bone and/or cloth the Pardoner carries in his work.

What are holy relics?

400

The crone says this is more valuable than a gentle (noble) birth.

What is "loves to work for virtuous ends" and "to do what deeds of gentleness he can"?

400
He was distinguished in battle, did not dress in fancy clothes, wasn't one to brag, and he was said to be wise.
Who is the Knight?
500

The author was given this title after he brought respect to the English language by showing that it was a language that could be effectively used in literature (as opposed to French or Latin).

What is Father of the English Poetry?  

Also acceptable:  Father of English Literature

500
An act of religious devotion performed to show sorrow for committing a sin.
What is penance?
500

The vow the three rioters swore to each other.

What is to be as brothers until they had found and killed Death?

500

The lesson the knight learns by the end of the story.

What is to let his wife rule over him?

500
This guy simply loved a party. Young and handsome, he played the flute, stayed out all night, and was a real ladykiller.
Who is the Squire?