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History
Intro to Canterbury Tales
Pilgrims
Pilgrims and More
Stories
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Dates and events start and end this time period.
What is 1066-- Battle of Hastings and 1485-- First Tudor King?
100
Month of the Canterbury pilgrimage
What is April?
100
He loved a sop of cake in wine.
Who is Franklin?
100
He came from Dartmouth.
Who is the skipper?
100
In "The Pardoner's Tale" death is portrayed as
What is "the price of wickedness and as an actual person."
200
The type of literature to which chivalry gave rise.
What is romanticism?
200
Author of the Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
200
His only care was study-- money he spent on books.
Who is the clerk?
200
Had an ulcer on his knee.
Who is the cook?
200
It is ironic that the Pardoner preaches against avarice because he is
What is "especially greedy"?
300
A caste system based on religious concept of hierarchy with God as supreme overlord.
What is feudalism?
300
Destination of the pilgrimage
What is shrine of Thomas Beckett?
300
He was grounded in astronomy.
Who is the doctor?
300
Wore homely parti-colored coat.
Who is the Lawyer?
300
According to the "Wife of Bath," what women really want is
What is "mastery over their husbands"?
400
the language in which The Canterbury Tales is written.
What is Middle English?
400
Using the same literary device that Boccacio used for the Decameron, Chaucer set the group of short stories within a _____________.
What is a frame?
400
His nose had a wart with hair on it.
Who is the miller?
400
She'd had five husbands.
Who is the Wife of Bath?
400
The old woman speaks eloquently about
What is "true and false gentility and virtue"?
500
Name and give significance of four events during the Middle Ages that radically altered the course of English History.
What is Crusades: 1. exposed Christian Europe to sophisticated civilization. 2. Black Death-- reduced population. 3. Martydom of Thomas Beckett-- created a backlash against the monarchy. 4. Hundred Years War-- brought about the rise of the Yeoman. 5. Magna Carta-- curbed the Church's power.
500
Two reasons that the Canterbury Tales is important.
What is 1. Gave respect to the English Language 2. Set up character stories-- pattern followed through the ages.
500
Wore a coat and hood of green.
Who is the Yeoman?
500
He had the voice of a goat.
Who is the Pardoner?
500
The knight shows he has learned his lesson when he
What is "asks his wife to decide which form she will take"?