Chaucer
What war did Chaucer serve in?
The 100 Years War.
What lesson can be learned from the Knight's assumptions of his wife?
Don't judge a book by its cover.
How many husbands did the Wife of Bath have?
5
Who was king at the time of the Canterbury Tales?
King Arthur.
Why were the Canterbury Tales never finished?
Chaucer died.
How long did the knight have to find the answer to his quest?
A year and a day.
What views does the Old Woman have on nobility?
Noble ancestry doesn't make you a noble person.
What did the Wife of Bath use to justify so many marriages?
Religion.
What was the common punishment for rape at this time?
Death.
What language did Chaucer write the Canterbury Tales in?
English.
What was the quest assigned to the Knight by the Queen?
To find the answer to the question: what do women most desire?
What two attributes can women not possess at the same time while married?
Beauty and Fidelity.
What was the Wife of Bath's motive for marriage?
Money.
How would the knight have been executed?
Beheaded with an axe. ("Your neck is forfeit to the axe")
What other war was Chaucer alive for?
The Peasant Revolt.
How many dancing women did the Knight hallucinate in the woods?
The knight gave her mastery over him.
What was the Wife of Bath's profession?
Seamstress.
When it came to keeping secrets, what did the Wife of Bath believe?
That women were unable to keep them.
The Canterbury Tales earned Chaucer the title of what?
The father of English Literature.
Was the knight's wife old and ugly, or young and beautiful?
Both.
What views does the Old Woman have on poverty?
It makes people noble.
What was the Wife's purpose for telling this tale?
What language was nobility speaking at the time?
French.