W of B Prologue Q's
How many times has the wife of bath been married?
What is 5 times
The most sinful characteristic in men that the pardoner constantly preaches against.
What is Avarice = greed?
The duration of time given for the knight to find the answer that the queen G posed.
What is a year?
Challenge presented to the knight by the queen
What is find the answer to the question of what women want most
Spoke "'I will grant you life if you can tell me what thing it is that women most desire'"
from "The Wife of Bath's Tale"
Who is the queen?
How many of her husbands are good/bad?
3 good 2 bad
The name of the villain who has killed multiple people in town.
Who is Death?
The way the two older rioters died.
What is drinking poisoned wine?
why the knight is so sad when he is in bed with the old woman
What is he doesn’t like the fact that he is married to someone who is so old, ugly, and lowborn
Spoke "'Give me your promise, here upon my hand,' she said, 'that you will do the next thing I require of you, if it lied in your power, and I will tell it to you before nightfall'" (Chaucer.345.153-156).
Who is the old woman?
What makes her husbands "good" and "bad: in her eyes?
The good ones are old and easy to manipulate; the bad ones are young, abusive, and do not listen to her
The pardoner sells these to make his pocket money
what are fake relics and pardons?
The way in which the youngest rioter died.
what the knight sees in the woods before he sees the hag
What is at least 24 ladies dancing
"if it be your design to find out death, turn up this crooked way towards that grove, I left him there today under a tree."
Free 400
congrats
You purchase this to be forgiven.
what is a pardon?
The number of pieces of gold found under the tree.
("The Pardoner's Tale")
What is 8?
Shows that the knight has learned his lesson of what women really want
What is he asks his wife to make his decision for him
the pardoner think who is "most enveloped of you all in sin."?
Who is the Host?
Who interrupts the Wife of bath during her prologue?
the friar
The Pardoner suggests this person to buy his relics even though everyone knows that they are fake.
who is the host?
The name of the book the Wife of Bath's referenced in her tale
What is Ovid's Midas
State of the hag at the end of the tale
What is fair, young, and a faithful wife
"Radix malorum est cupiditas" means what?