The Canterbury Tales and Geoffrey Chaucer

Who wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?

• William Shakespeare

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• John Milton

• Charles Dickens

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Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the '__________ of English Literature'.

• Father

• Son

• Brother

• Uncle

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Geoffrey Chaucer was a man of the __________.

• A) Church

• B) Court

• C) Sea

• D) Land

Chaucer fought in the __________.

• A) Hundred Years' War

• B) War of the Roses

• C) English Civil War

• D) Napoleonic Wars

Chaucer supervised the construction of __________.

• Westminster Abbey

• The Tower of London

• The London Bridge

• The Globe Theatre

The Canterbury Tales is a ________ story that provides a vehicle or frame for telling other stories.

• single

• collection

• fictional

• historical

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The pilgrims are traveling to the ________ in Canterbury.

• Cathedral

• Market

• Castle

• University

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The Canterbury Tales are written in the following language: ________ ________.

• Old English

• Middle English

• Modern English

• Latin

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