Final Exam Review for English IV: Spring 2021

The most accurate description of the group of pilgrims is as a...

• number of people who represent many different occupations, classes, and personalities

• collection of people who are obsessed with money and sensual pleasures

• group that comes from many walks of life, but consists of deeply flawed individuals

• variety of individuals who have qualities that are meant to make you unhapy

The Canterbury Tales is unique because it is a frame story. What is the best way to describe a frame story?

• A story that is framed in a symbolic way

• A story that is framed around and overarching story

• A story that is framed in reverse order

• A story that is framed together by a large number of characters

There was a Knight, a most distinguished man,

Who from the day on which he first began

To ride abroad had followed chivalry ,

Truth, honor, generousness, and courtesy

What is the meaning of chivalry?

• A code of conduct

• A trait that gives you shivers

• A religion

• A road to Canterbury

What season is described in the opening passage of The Canterbury Tales?

• summer
• winter
• spring
• fall

Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?

• Unknown
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Venerable Bede
• Edmund Spenser

What is Chaucer's main purpose for writing the Prologue?

• describe a London inn
• introduce all the pilgrims
• explain religious customs
• reveal the narrator's thoughts

What is the question the knight has to answer in "The Wife of Bath's Tale"?

• What do men want the most?
• What do women want the most?
• What does chivalry mean?
• What is the best age to marry?

What is the Wife of Bath's philosophy on marriage?

• To love equally

• To be controlled by her husbands

• To dominate her husbands

• To have a job

Which of the three rioters commits murder?

• All of them

• None of them

• Only the one who goes into town

• The two that stay behind

In what language were the tales originally written?

• Old English
• Middle English
• Modern English
• French