Canterbury Tales - The Pardoner's Tale

The Pardoner is an official of the ...

• Government
• Church 
• Community
• King

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A Pardoner has the power to forgive ____ and grant ________.

• indulgences, penances
• sins, wishes
• sins, indulgences
• mistakes, prayers

The Pardoner thinks that ...

• Men are the root of all evil

• Greed is the root of all evil

• The devil is the root of all evil

• Women are the root of all evil

When the tale opens, what are the rioters doing?

• Drinking
• Sleeping
• Nothing
• Dancing

What kind of people are the rioters? 

• Devout Christians
• Trouble-makers - drinking before 9 am
• Hardworking 
• Good people 

What passes by the tavern that catches the rioters attention? 

• A coffee machine
• A talking donkey
• A coffin
• A pretty lady

The stories about Death that the servant boy and the tavern-knave tell suggest that 

• people are dying of plague
• death from violence and plague is rampant
• people looked forward to death
• Death will be hard to find.

Why do the rioters go looking for Death? 

• For repentance and salvation
• Avenge the death of their friends
• For great treasure
• To banish him from England 

After the rioters' rude greeting, the old man

• ignores their questions, preferring to speak of his own life
• responds to them with patience, advice, and warning
• focuses solely on their perpetual death-in-life state
• encourages them to seek the treasures and pleasures of life

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.RL.K.2

CCSS.RL.K.3

What is ironic about the attitude that the old man has toward Death?

• He refers to his grave as his “mother.”
• Most people refer to death as an event, not a person.
• He has seen death more than once. 
• Most people try to avoid death, but he looks for it.