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Chaucer & General Prologue
Pardoner's Tale
Wife of Bath's Tale
Nun's Priest's Tale
Knight's Tale
100
The language Chaucer's work was written in
What is Middle English?
100
What three friends set out to find and kill
What is death?
100
The character who commits a crime at the tale's beginning
What is the knight?
100
The genre of the tale
What is a beast fable?
100
The tale's genre
What is courtly romance?
200
Two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter; Chaucer wrote in these
What is heroic couplet?
200
What the Flemish youth finds under an oak tree
What is eight bushels of gold?
200
The character who decides the knight's fate in Arthur's court
Who is the Queen?
200
the husband and wife featured in the tale
What is Chanticleer and Pertelote?
200
the tale's setting
What is Ancient Greece?
300
The number of tales Chaucer intended to write
What is 120?
300
the deadly sin the youths are guilty of
What is greed?
300
How the knight will be killed if he fails to complete his task
What is decapitation?
300
Chanticleer dreams that this animal will capture him
What is a fox?
300
The duke of Athens
Who is Theseus?
400
The city in England around which Chaucer lived and worked; its dialect influenced his writing
What is London?
400
Portraying Death as a person is an example of this literary device
What is personification?
400
Why the Wife of Bath believes she has authority to tell this story
What is her extensive experience with marriage?
400
How the fox gets Chanticleer to close his eyes
What is flattery?
400
Cousins who fall in love with the same woman
Who are Palamon and Arcite?
500
The century in which Canterbury Tales was written
What is the fourteenth century?
500
What the pardoner offers to the other pilgrims at the end of his tale
What is the opportunity to buy fake relics?
500
According to the Wife, what all women want
What is sovereignty or mastery over their husbands?
500
What the fox does that enables the rooster to escape
What is bragging?
500
How the men will decide who gets Emily's hand in marriage
What is a tournament?