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How many times has the Wife of Bath been married?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

At the beginning of her tale, the Wife of Bath makes an unkind remark about friars. She describes a setting a hundred years prior when fairies and elves roamed the

lands. Along came the friars and they chased away these magical creatures making the lands safe. How does she use this description to make a dig at the friars? She says women are now safe

• to walk alone because only the friars are about and the friars will only take a woman’s virtue, which is to say, rape her.

• to walk alone because the friars have chased away the fairies and elves that used to attack women and rape them.

• to walk in the woods because there is always a friar handy to escort one.

• to walk in the woods because the friars have set up a blockade for anything evil.

What is the setting of her tale?

• King Creon’s court

• King Arthur’s court

• the Elf Queen’s court

• the Marquis’s court

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.

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

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

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.

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.