Wife of Bath's Tale Quiz

What is the setting of her tale?

• King Creon’s court

• King Arthur’s court

• the Elf Queen’s court

• the Marquis’s court

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When a lusty knight is walking through the woods, he spies a maiden and he

• falls in love and proposes to her.

• begs her to run away with him.

• tries to take her forcibly but she runs to the nearest friar for help.

• is overcome with his own desire and rapes her.

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Which character gives the knight an opportunity to save his life?

• the queen

• the king

• another knight who is speaking on behalf of the knight

• an old woman who was once a beautiful young woman

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The knight spends a year on his quest and is unable to find the answer until the very last moment. Where does he find this answer?

• the queen

• he asks the Elf Queen

• an old woman

• his fellow knight

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When he says the correct answer, the queen pronounces him free

• of debt and allows him to leave.

• but the old woman says he owes her a debt that must be paid.

• as long as he never returns to the kingdom again.

• but the old woman says it was really her answer and calls the knight a cheater.

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What is the debt the old woman claims the knight owes her? The knight has to

• marry her.

• take her to her homeland safely.

• pay her a large sum of money.

• to marry the women he originally raped because she is the old woman’s daughter.

When asked if he prefers a young woman who will cheat on him or an old one who will be faithful, the knight responds

• the young one and he will find a way to chain her up.

• the old woman and he will just take a mistress on the side.

• neither, he decides to run away and live the life of a hermit.

• by telling her to do whatever she wants and he will live with her decision.

What is the result of the knight’s decision?

• He lives happily ever after with the old woman.

• He remains married to the old woman and eventually learns to appreciate her.

• She turns into a beautiful young woman and he is happy.

• She turns into a beautiful fairy queen and flies away.

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What is the theme of this tale?

• Knights cannot be trusted.

• Sometimes wisdom comes in unattractive packages.

• Women never know exactly what they want.

• Men should always submit to their wives.

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How is this tale particularly fitting for the Wife of Bath?

• The Wife of Bath’s Prologue is about how a woman in the know can control her husband and the tale reinforces that message.

• The Wife of Bath’s last husband was half her age and the knight is half the age of the old woman.

• The Wife of Bath is an old and unattractive woman so she resembles the old woman in the tale.

• The Wife of Bath’s daughter was the maiden the knight attacked.