It's Too Basic
He composed the various Tales we are currently reading.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
This is the name of the character who cuckolds the husband in The Miller's Tale.
Who is Nicholas?
This is the name of Chanticleer's most favored hen.
Who is Pertelote?
The Pardoner is described as having eyes like this animal.
What is a hare?
"his nose displayed/A wart on which there stood a tuft of hair"
Who is The Miller?
This is the name of the collection of Tales we are now working on.
What is The Canterbury Tales?
The Miller's Tale is told at the expense of this individual and particular character.
Who is The Reeve (or Carpenter)?
This is the type of animal that tricks the rooster by appealing to his vanity.
What is a fox?
The Pardoner repeats this phrase in Latin which translates to this is English.
What is "Greed is the root of all evil?"
"And by his flatteries and prevarication/Made monkeys of the priest and congregation"
Who is The Pardoner?
This is the year the Tales were written (within fifty years either way).
What is 1387?
The Miller excels at this sport.
What is wrestling?
Chanticleer's favored hen chides him for paying too much attention to this, insisting that it was merely indigestion.
What is a dream?
The old man tells the rioters they can find Death at the foot of this kind of tree.
What is an oak?
"Who's busy rubbing, scraping at his lips/With dust, with sand, with straw, with cloth, with chips,"
Who is Absalon?
This is the number of Tales the author intended to write at starting.
What is 120?
The character who cuckolds the husband not only studies this subject but also employs it to help trick the husband.
What is astrology?
Chanticleer has this many wives.
What is seven?
This character threatens to do bodily harm to The Pardoner at the conclusion of his tale.
Who is The Host?
"I cannot love a coward come what may./For certainly, whatever we may say,/All women long - and O that it that it might be! -/For husbands tough, dependable, and free."
Who is Pertelote?
This is the name of the first portion of the text wherein all the pilgrims are introduced.
What is The General Prologue?
The student cuckolding the husband screams this word out in pain leading directly to the husband breaking his arm in a fall.
What is "water?"
The Nun's Priest cautions the pilgrims to be careful not to fall for this specific thing as it is the basic subject of his entire story.
What is flattery?
The Pardoner is described as being either of two types of horses; name either.
What is a gelding or a mare?
"'It is a sin and foolishness,' said he,/'To slander any man or bring a scandal/On wives in general. Why can't you handle/Some other tale? There's other things beside.'"
Who is The Reeve (or Carpenter)?