Wife of Bath's Tale 2

What kind of story is The Canterbury Tales?

• a sonnet

• an epic story

• a frame story

• a non-fiction story

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The Wife of Bath is a character in the story she is telling.

• True

• False

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What question does the knight have to find the answer to in order to save his life?

• What is the best way to get a woman?

• What is it that all women want most?

• What do men think that women want most?

• Why do men have more power than women?

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In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," what does the knight do after hearing the queen's question?

• He searches all over and asks everyone he finds for the answer.

• He goes to prison because he could not answer the question.

• He leaves the kingdom and tries to find a safe place to hide.

• He searches for the old woman to get her advice.

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What problem does the knight encounter during his quest?

• People offer only vague answers to his question

• People cannot agree about what women want most

• One year is not enough time to fulfill his promise

• His lovely young wife becomes a homely old woman

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I asked you to make a prediction about whether or not the knight would ever find the answer to the question. Did your prediction come true?

• Yes

• No

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According to the Wife of Bath, what is the best way to win a woman?

• Money

• Flattery

• Giving them freedom

• Gorgeous clothes

The Wife of Bath tells the story of Midas and his donkey ears in order to

• give evidence for her statement that women can’t keep secrets.

• warn the reader that there are consequences for not keeping secrets.

• show that women are better than men at keeping secrets.

• keep her first story moving along.

The old woman agrees to give the knight the answer to the question if he agrees to

• do whatever she asks for the rest of his life

• give her money

• do the next thing that she asks him to do

• do her three favors

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Does the knight in this story behave the way a knight is expected to behave?

• Yes

• No

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