The Canterbury Tales

In The Canterbury Tales, there are ___ pilgrims (excluding Chaucer as the narrator and The Host).

• 29

• 26

• 30

• 27

A nonstandard language or dialect of a place, social class or region in which Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales.

(a)  

When does The Prologue begin?

• May

• January

• April

• March

In The Prologue, is Chaucer a reliable narrator?

• Yes

• No

This type of narration is used in the tales told by pilgrims.

• First-person narration

• Third-person narration

There are no vivid distinctions between the tales in terms of their writing style.

• False

• True

Choose all the characters belonging to the Clergy Estate.

• Pardoner

• Monk

• Skipper

• Squire

• Friar

Type of meter firstly employed by Chaucer (2 words); the same meter is used in The Canterbury Tales.

(a)  

Choose all the actions by The Host.

• tries to bring arguing pilgrims together

• prefers tragic stories over comic ones

• draws lessons from the tales

• indifferent to tales, keeps emotionally uninvolved

• chooses the first speaker

(a)   is a 'story within a story,' a technique storytellers use in which the narrator in one setting tells a story set in another time and place.