The Canterbury Tales Character Test Review

Who is the author of The Canterbury Tales?

• Unknown

• Harry Bailey

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• William Shakespeare

Chaucer DID NOT experience THIS in his own life.

• Went on a pilgrimage to Canterbury.

• Was born into a Middle-Class Commons family.

• Was a soldier in France.

• Lived as a peasant.

The Canterbury Tales was in what time period?

• Anglo-Saxon

• Medieval

• Renaissance

• Victorian

A story WITHIN another story is called a _______ story.

• Heroic

• Allegory

• Frame

• Satire

A rhyming pair of lines BACK TO BACK is called ____________.

• rhyming couplets

• an allegory

• a frame story

• a satire

A story with a deep symbolic meaning that is commenting on a society is called ________.

• an archetype

• an allegory

• a frame story

• irony

What aspect of Medieval Society is Chaucer MOST satirizing?

• The Peasant Class

• The Clergy

• The Nobility

• Lack of a Middle Class

Where is the setting of the prologue in The Canterbury Tales?

• Canterbury

• Kent

• Scotland

• Wales

Who does this describe? "I am poor and study philosophy. I spend all my money on books."

• Squire

• Franklin

• Clerk/ Student

• Reeve

Who does this describe? "I am the leader of the group. I challenge everyone to a story-telling contest."

• Miller

• Host

• Chaucer

• Merchant