Canterbury Tales Intro

A frame story is...

• A story within a story
• A story about a specific time in history
• A story about a photo/work of art
• A story about a person bordering society

Whose shrine are the characters going to visit?

• Geoffery Chaucer's

• Thomas Becket's

• Beowulf's

• King Henry VIII's

Geoffrey Chaucer spoke many languages but chose to write the Canterbury Tales in

• French

• Latin

• Italian

• Midddle English

How are the pilgrims going to occupy their time on the journey there and back?

• by telling stories

• by playing I spy

• by playing the alphabet game

• by praying

What does the winner with the best story get?

• to be in the front of the line
• to go home first
• a dinner hosted by the other pilgrims
• a medal

During the Middle Ages, the church was extremely powerful, wealthy, and corrupt.

• true

• false

What season/month is described as the setting of the story, in the Prologue?

• Spring/March

• Spring/April

• Summer/June

• Summer/July

How many tales were there?

• 31

• 24

• 29

• 101

Including the narrator and the host, how many pilgrims were at the Tabard Inn that night?

• 31

• 28
• 25
• 12

The form of government at this time was a ?

• democracy

• dictatorship

• feudal system