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Marital Bliss
Characterization
The Plot
Misc.
Vocabulary
100
This is the number of husbands the Wife of Bath had.
What is five?
100
Her favorite husband was known to do this.
What is beat the tar out of her?
100
What was it the Queen sent the knight out to do?
What is find the answer to the question, "What do women desire most?"
100
When the old woman says in her long speech that "gentility comes from God and not from ancestry," she is letting him know that his judgment of her class is faulty. When she drops the names of many of the great classic writers, she is letting him know...
What is that she is intelligent?
100
Ptolemy
Who is an ancient astronomer, scientist, and mathematician?
200
What act did the knight commit that got him into trouble?
What is he raped a virgin.
200
What are the three complaints the old lady addresses in her speech to the knight as he explains why his life is never going to be good.
What is her alleged lack of gentility, her intellect, and her old age.
200
This is how long she gave him to figure it out.
What is 12 months?
200
Coy, fed roasted meat to dogs, wore a locket that said "Love Conquers All."
Who is the Nun (or Prioress)?
200
Distress; suffering. (Starts with a T)
What is tribulation?
300
Why did the king spare the life of the condemned knight?
What is the queen and all the ladies wanted him spared.
300
The inference that Wife of Bath was a feminist based on her many marriages and her story's message that women do not want to play second fiddle to their husbands is an example of an __________ ____________.
What is an indirect characterization.
300
Who does the doomed knight meet on the final day of his quest?
What is an old, foul-looking woman.
300
Bald, fat, did not believe he should do hard work, wore fine gray fur and a "cunningly fashioned pin" wrought into a lover's knot.
Who is the Monk?
300
Edge (starts with an M)
What is margin?
400
This is what the old lady requests of the knight once his life is spared by the queen.
What is that he should marry her?
400
The number of pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn.
What is 29?
400
What deal does the knight strike with the old woman?
What is that if she gives him the answer, thus sparing his life, he will do whatever one thing she asks of him.
400
Aristocratic, takes bribes for easy penance.
Who is the Friar?
400
lord (starts with an L)
What is liege?
500
They have marital bliss in the end of the story.
Who is the knight and the old woman.
500
Master chef, sores on his knee
Who is the Cook?
500
This was the answer to the question.
What is that women want the same power over their husbands as they have over their lovers. They must be equals.
500
A hunter, head like a brown nut.
Who is the Yeoman?
500
Power (starts with an S)
What is sovereignty?