Canterbury Tales Station Mini Assessment

Station # 1 - Which of the following is NOT a job you would encounter in the middle ages.

• Artist
• Blacksmith
• Miller
• Watchman
• Pipe Fitter

What season is being described in station # 2

• Winter
• Spring
• Summer
• Fall

The Canterbury Tales was written in:

• Middle English
• Old English
• Contemporary English
• Early Modern English

What is code switching?

• Speaking "Spanglish" or "African American" dialects instead of proper English.
• The process of shifting from one linguistic code, language, or dialect to another for social context or conversational setting.
• The study of human speech including the units, nature, structure, and modification of language.
• statements written in a programming language that needs to be switched often

What is a Frame Story

• nondramatic fiction intended to render the flow of myriad impressions—visual, auditory, physical, associative, and subliminal—that impinge on the consciousness of an individual and form part of his awareness along with the trend of his rational thoughts.
• is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from that storyteller's own personal point of view
• is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or main narrative sets the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories.
• a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance

Which of the following is NOT a frame story?

• The Princess Bride
• Titanic
• Beowulf
• Canterbury Tales

What is a pilgrimage?

• a place where people go to achieve solitude and/or be alone with their thoughts in order to gain clarity..
• an escape from all the temptations of the secular world
• an extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home or traveling
• A journey taken to a shrine of a sacred place for spiritual renewal and/or personal growth.

Which of the following is NOT a pilgrimage people undertake?

• Dollywood
• Mecca
• Canterbury
• Neverland Ranch

Feudalism, the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service etc. Which class would the following people belong to? The Reeve and The Merchant

• High Clergy or Nobility
• Low Clergy or Low Nobility
• Highly skilled Peasants
• Lower Peasants

Compare the Black Death and Covid 19. How were they similar? List two examples.