Pardoner's Tale

How does the Pardoner keep up his extravagant lifestyle?

• His church pays for all his expenses.
• The Pope gives him money to spend.
• He sells authentic holy relics from Rome.
• He tells stories to make people buy pardons.

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CCSS.RI.K.1

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

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CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.RL.K.2

CCSS.RL.K.3

What prediction would you most likely make?
At once the three young rioters began
To run, and reached the tree, and there they found A pile of golden florins on the ground, New-coined, eight bushels of them as they thought. No longer was it Death those fellows sought,
For they were all so thrilled to see the sight,
The florins were so beautiful and bright, That down they sat beside the precious pile.

• People think that the rioters stole the money.
• The rioters will happily split the money equally.
• Death uses the gold as a reward for a challenge.
• The gold will be the downfall of the rioters. 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What does the Pardoner suggest about the deaths of the two older rioters?
There is, in Avicenna’s long relation Concerning poison and its operation,
Trust me, no ghastlier section to transcend What these two wretches suffered at their end. Thus these two murderers received their due, So did the treacherous young poisoner too.

• Their transgression merited a severe punishment.
• Their death were easier than they deserved.
• They realized that they had been betrayed.
• Death himself had planned all the deaths.

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CCSS.RL.K.1

What idea does the Pardoner appeal to at the end of the tale to try to sell absolutions and relics?
When soul leaves body for the future state!
And I advise our Host here to begin,
The most enveloped of you all in sin.
Come forward, Host, you shall be the first to pay, And kiss my holy relics right away.  Only a groat. Come on, unbuckle your purse!

• fear of sudden death without a pure soul
• concern for a person's family members
• desire for something that others have
• worry about contracting the plague

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CCSS.RL.K.1

What is avarice?

• jealousy
• opportunism
• greed
• hypocrisy

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

To castigate is to

• criticize severely
• encourage daily
• repeat often
• approach carefully

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The youngest rioter buys poison because he...

• wants all the treasure for himself
• hopes to help the old man find death
• notices wild animals around the treasure
• knows that the other two are planning his death

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CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.RL.K.3

What method will the two rioters use to kill the youngest rioter?

• leave him alone in the forest
• poison him
• play wrestle then stab him in the back
• take his food so he will starve

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CCSS.RL.K.1

One moral in this tale addresses the problem of greed.  What is another lesson that one of the characters states?

• Respect death, for illness may occur soon.
• Treat the old as you would wish to be treated.
• Meet death gladly in old age, but never murder.
• Refuse to enter into pacts; instead, trust yourself.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2