The Pardoner's Tale

The moral of "The Pardoner's Tale" 

• friends can never be trusted
• greed is the source of all evil
• a promise is a promise

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Chaucer uses the pilgrimage to Canterbury primarily as a device to

• emphasize the characters' religious beliefs
• Frame the story told by individual characters
• Describe the difficulties of medieval life

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What is ironic about the pledge the rioters make in the following lines from “The Pardoner’s  Tale”?
_{They made their bargain, swore with appetite./ These three, to live and die for one  another/
 As brother-born might swear to his born brother.}

• They have only just met that morning
• They don't realize that death is listening to them.
• They later plot to kill one another over the gold.

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When analyzing “The Pardoner’s Tale” as an allegory, the rioters would represent which of these qualities?

• greed and homicide

• fame and fortune

• old age and death

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What becomes clearer when reading the following passage from “The Pardoner’s Tale”?
 ...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, and there you’ll find him waiting.

• The plague will kill the three rioters before the make it to the tree.
• The old man is pointing the three rioters towards their own deaths.
• The three rioters will avoid deat

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For what reason does the Pardoner tell his tale?

• He uses it to get listeners to give up their money
• He is a poor man who tells stories to earn money
• He truly believes that greed is evil

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In what way is the old man correct in saying they will find death under the tree?

• death appears as a skeleton under the tree
• the gold under the tree leads to death
• the coffin is buried under the tree

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Which of the following is NOT a sin committed by the rioters?

• greed
• murder
• theft

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Which of the following was NOT a character in "The Pardoner's Tale?"

• three rioters
• the pardoner
• the apothecary

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How does "The Pardoner's Tale" have a just ending?

• The old man becomes death
• No one gets greedy and keeps the gold
• the rioters die in the end because of greed

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