The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue CFA

True or False. The winner of the story-telling game will win a free dinner paid by all of the pilgrims when they get back to London

• True

• False

True or False. Chaucer shows approval of the Parson.

• True

• False

True or False. Chaucer depicts the members of the Ecclesiastical class in a mostly positive way.

• True

• False

Where are the pilgrims traveling?

• Paris

• Rome

• Canterbury

• Jerusalem

Which pilgrim is described in the following passage: “Speaking of his equipment, he possessed / Fine horses, but he was not gaily dressed. / He wore a fustian tunic stained and dark / With smudges where his armor had left mark..."?

• The Knight

• The Squire

• The Yeoman

• The Monk

Which pilgrim is described in the following passage: “She certainly was very entertaining, / Pleasant and friendly in her ways, and straining / To counterfeit a courtly kind of grace, / A stately bearing fitting to her place, / And to seem dignified in all her dealings”?

• The Wife of Bath

• The Prioress

• The Nun

• The Merchant

Which pilgrim is described in the following passage: “It was not fitting with the dignity / Of his position, dealing with a scum / Of wretched lepers; nothing good can come / Of commerce with such slum-and-gutter dwellers”?

• The Friar

• The Summoner

• The Pardoner

• The Monk

Which of the following details is provided by the narrator about the Wife of Bath?

• She has been married five times

• She is a wealthy widow

• She is deeply religious and pious

• She is a skilled physician

What makes the Pardoner a hypocrite?

• He lives a life of poverty but preaches about wealth

• He sells fake relics and indulgences while condemning greed

• He advocates for charity but hoards his own wealth

• He is faithful to his vows while leading a corrupt life