The Prologue
The amount of times the Wife of Bath has been married.
What is five?
The crime the knight commits at the beginning.
What is rape?
How the Wife of Bath views the role of intimacy in controlling her husbands
What is using it to dominate them?
What idea sets the Wife of Bath off on a rant during her prologue?
What is the belief that people should marry only once?
Where is the Wife of Bath’s tale set?
What is King Arthur’s court?
The biblical event the Wife of Bath references when justifying multiple marriages.
What is the wedding at Cana?
Gives the knight a chance to avoid execution.
Who is the queen?
The argument the wife uses to defend remarriage.
What is citing biblical figures and her own experience?
How does the Wife of Bath describe her earlier husbands compared to her last?
What is the earlier ones were easy to manipulate; the last was abusive?
What sarcastic comment does the Wife of Bath make about friars?
What is that women are only threatened by friars now (implying rape)?
The person who interrupts the Wife of Bath's Prologue.
Who is the Pardoner?
Gives the knight the answer to the queen's question
Who is the old woman?
How is the knight’s punishment appropriate for his crime?
What is it teaches him women want control, which he tried to take?
How does the Wife of Bath keep her husbands from criticizing her behavior?
What is accusing them of cheating first and using manipulation?
What does the old woman in the tale represent symbolically?
What is wisdom or true virtue hidden behind unattractiveness?
The purpose of intimacy in marriage.
What is controlling husbands?
The knight's final answer to the old woman's challenge about who should decide.
What is he lets her choose?
What does the old woman say to convince the knight to let her choose?
What is true nobility comes from character, not appearance?
How does the Wife gain control over her last husband?
What is after he beats her, she gains dominance and he submits?
What is a central theme of the Wife of Bath’s tale?
What is that true wisdom and power don’t always come in attractive forms?
The main theme of the Wife of Bath's Prologue.
What is women having control over their husbands is the natural order?
What is she transforms into a beautiful young woman?
How does the tale reflect the themes of the prologue?
What is both emphasize female authority and power in relationships?
What happens between the Friar and the Summoner during the prologue?
What is they argue and threaten to insult each other?
Why is the Wife of Bath the perfect person to tell this tale?
What is the tale supports her prologue’s message about female power?