The Pardoner's Tale

The vice against which the Pardoner preaches in all of his sermons is:

• lechery

• gluttony

• greed

• sloth

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

When the Pardoner says "That trick's been worth a hundred marks a year," "that trick" refers to:

• showing his audience bulls from the popes, cardinals, and bishops to demonstrate his impressive connections.

• making his audience choose between paying him and appearing to others to be sinful.

• sprinkling a few words of Latin in his sermons to "stir devotion with a spice of teaching"

• stretching his neck and gesturing like an actor during his sermons to entertain his audiences.

By saying that "covetousness is both the root and stuff of all I preach," the Pardoner means that

• he is motivated by and preaches about greed

• his sermons are all about hypocrisy

• all of his ideas for sermons come from thinking about the Bible.

• his sermons succeed because his audiences are covetous.

All of the following are ironic, except

• an immoral man is an able teller of moral tales

• an avaricious man makes a living by preaching against avarice.

• an ugly man is a successful preacher.

• an avaricious man can get covetous men to repent of their covetousness.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

By "I do not preach in vain," the Pardoner means that he

• convinces his audiences to stop being vain through his preaching.

• satisfies his vanity by preaching

• saves souls through his preaching

• makes money from preaching.

"Radix malorum est cupiditas" means

• "poverty is the root of all evil."

• "the root of evil is greed"

• "love heals all"

• "A little learning is a dangerous thing"

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

The office of the Pardoner was part of

• the local governing body

• the King's privy counsel

• the Catholic Church

• the Anglican Church

When the tale opens, what are the rioters doing?

• drinking

• nothing

• dancing

• sleeping

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.W.11-12.9

What passes the rioters by that catches their attention?

• A knight

• A priest

• A coffin

• A horse

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.12

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

What kind of people are the rioters?

• Upstanding citizens

• gamblers and drunks

• hardworking people

• good people

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.12

CCSS.RL.8.5