The Prologue
History
Ballads
Medieval Romance
Miscellaneous
100
He serves as guide for the pilgrimage.
Who is the Host? (Keeper of the tavern).
100
In the feudal system, this class was by far the smallest of the feudal system. It was supposed to be divinely appointed.
What are the monarchs/kings?
100
The main characters of "Get Up and Bar the Door."
Who are a husband and wife?
100
The "once and future king".
Who is King Arthur?
100
Where we learn that what women truly want is sovereignty or power.
What is "The Wife of Bath's Tale"?
200
The lawyer, the merchant, the franklin (the group they belonged in).
What is the merchant/ professionals group?
200
A set of ideals in knighthood (honor, courtesy, courtly love, etc).
What is chivalry?
200
This is the time of year in which "Barbara Allan" is set.
What is autumn/fall/Martinmas time?
200
Medieval romance is written in prose
What is Morte d'Arthur?
200
The literary work that contains three rioters and some gold.
What is "The Pardoner's Tale"?
300
The group Chaucer made fun of.
What is the Church?
300
This killed 1/3 of Europe's population in medieval times.
What is the Plague/ Black Death?
300
Two characteristics of the medieval ballads.
What are the following: song-like, with definite rhyme and meter; a simple, dramatic episode; an air of mystery; often written in quatrains
300
A story in which a headless knight runs away to fight in 12 months' time.
What is "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"?
300
The three languages that make up Middle English.
What are French, Old English, and Latin?
400
Two of the Pardoner's character traits.
What are greed and hypocrisy?
400
The leader of the Norman forces which defeated the Saxons, led by King Harold.
Who is William the Conqueror?
400
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
What is a modern ballad?
400
The Call, The Other, The Journey, The Treasure, The Transformation
What are the stages of a quest?
400
This man translated the Bible into English to make it more accessible to all people
Who is John Wycliffe?
500
Speaker of "Before yet farther in this tale I pace, It seems to me accordant with reason To inform you of the state of every one Of all these, as it appeared to me"
Who is the narrator or Chaucer?
500
This historic document was signed by King John and declared that the king could not tax land without first meeting with the barons
What is the Magna Carta?
500
The three defining characteristics of a ballad.
What are tragic subject matter, simple plot involving single incident, and dialogue?
500
Relationship involving nobility.
What is courtly love?
500
Definition of allegory and an example that we read.
What is a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life and Piers Plowman.