Chaucer Facts
The Cursed Theatre Trip
The Story and Frame
Gender
Irony and Satire
100

The century in which Chaucer lived

What is the 14th century?

100

The theatre where we saw the play

What is the Barbican?

100

What the Merchant is complaining about in his prologue

Who is his wife?

100

The number of women in The Merchant's Tale

What is two (May and Proserpina)?

100

January's flattering friend 

Who is Placebo?

200

The type of business Chaucer was born into

What are wine merchants?

200

The only two students who saw the entire play

Who are Kai and Leann?

200

Where Damyan ends up at the end of the tale

What is "we don't know"? (alternate answers are still in the tree or the garden)

200

One of the words January uses to describe May's youth

What is "fresshe"?
200

How May gets up to the pear tree

What is "by climbing on January's back"?

300

A job that Chaucer held during his lifetime 

What are squire, soldier, diplomat, clerk, forester?

300

The student whose phone died on his way to the Barbican

Who is Alex Annesanti?

300

What the garden represents 

What is "a perverted Garden of Eden" or "January's desire to control May/her sexuality"?

300

The gift Proserpina declares she will give May to help her win against January 

What is a convincing argument?

300

What January gets wrong with all his mentions of biblical women

What is "they are deceitful, not virtuous"?

400

Any of the kings who ruled England during Chaucer's life

Who are Edward III, Richard II, and Henry IV?

400

The three students who arrived to the play late

Who are Kav, George, and Kate?

400

Which other two Canterbury tales/pilgrims are mentioned in The Merchant's Prologue and Tale?

What are the The Clerk's Tale and the Wife of Bath?

400

The material May uses to make a copy of the garden key

What is wax?

400

The reason May pays her first visit to Damyan

What is "January sends her"?

500

Another one of Chaucer's works that is NOT The Canterbury Tales

What is Anelida and Arcite, Troilus and Criseyde, the Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame....etc etc?

500

The reason Louis did not come on the trip

What is a "migraine"? 

500

What characterizes the Merchant in his description in the General Prologue

What is "his fashion sense" or "the way he speaks"?

500

The context of the Wife of Bath's feature in The Merchant's Tale

What is "her prologue about marriage is very long"?

500

The philosopher whose views on marriage January notably refute 

Who is Theofrastes?