Pardoner's Tale

Based on the rioters' actions, words, and attitude, what is the best description of their characters? Give evidence from the text to support your answer.

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THE PARDONER’S CONFESSION REVEALS THAT HE USES HIS HOLY TITLE AND TELLS _____ TO MAKE A PROFIT.

• The Past

• The Future

• Lies

• All of the above

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What is indirect characterization?

• What the characters, narrator, or other characters say about the character

• Inferred or implied characteristics based on indirect comments in a story.

• how the character looks

• What the character says about him/herself.

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Which of these lines best explains the central irony in “The Pardoner’s Prologue”?

• “By this fraud have I won me, year by year, / A hundred marks, since I’ve been pardoner.”

• “When they are dead, for all I think thereon / Their souls may well black-berrying have gone!”

• “For, when I dare not otherwise debate, / Then do I sharpen well my tongue and sting / The man in sermons, and upon him fling / My lying defamations”

• “Thus can I preach against that self-same vice / Which I indulge, and that is avarice.”

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WHAT IS THE PARDONER'S PROFESSION?

• Scammer

• Con artist

• Sort of a preacher

• Highest position in the church

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Which of the following occurred 2nd after the Pardoner finished his story?

• The Pardoner explains how he brings “relics” with supposed miraculous properties to his sermons and how people offer to pay him for their use.

• The Pardoner proclaims that his scheme has made him a hundred marks a year.

• The Pardoner admits that he does not care at all about punishing his congregants’ sins or about the salvation of their souls..

• The Pardoner says he always preaches on the same theme: Radix malorum est cupiditas.

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gold and silver coins

• florins

• folly

• dice

• pledge

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HOW DEEPLY IS THE PARDONER INVESTED IN THE SALVATION OF HIS CONGREGANTS?

• HE CARES DEEPLY FOR THE CONGREGANTS.

• HIS INVESTMENT IS MIXED AS HE DOES CARE BUT DOES NOT DO THE RIGHT THING.

• HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT SAVING THEIR SOULS.

• NONE OF THE ABOVE

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Which details in the opening sentence enable the audience to form a quick opinion of the main characters?