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WorksheetsCanterbury Tales Final Test
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 31mins
Who is the author of the Canterbury Tales?
Seamus Heaney
Geoffrey Chaucer
Jeffrey Jones
William Shakespeare
Chaucer is known as the father of what?
Modern English
English Poetry
Five Children
Anglo Saxon Fiction
The Canterbury Tales is known as...
Nonfiction
An Epic Poem
Historical Fiction
A Frame Tale
What is a frame tale?
A story within a story
A story about a work of art
A story about a specific time in history
A story about a hero
The Canterbury Tales follows a group of pilgrims traveling on a religious pilgrimage. Where are they traveling to?
Southern Sweden to visit the shrine of Beowulf
Canterbury to visit the shrine of Archbishop Thomas Becket
To visit the grave of a beloved family member
London to visit the Tabard Inn
What was Chaucer’s main purpose for writing the General Prologue?
Describe the Tabard Inn
Introduce all the pilgrims
Explain religious customs
Reveal the narrator’s thoughts
Which would best describe a man in the Middle Ages whose wife had cheated on him?
Schmendrick
Bum
Cuckold
Pringle
Based on his actions in the tale, which of the following words could NOT be used to describe the carpenter in “The Miller’s Tale”?
Jealous
Gullible
Intelligent
Cuckolded
How would you characterize the carpenter’ wife, Alison?
Middle aged but beautiful
Of average looks, but provocative
Exceptionally pretty and faithful
Young, beautiful and promiscuous
In "The Miller's Tale," whom does Alison actually love and want to be with?
John
Nicholas
Absalon
Hank
What story does Nicholas tell the carpenter in order to sleep with Allison?
The world is ending from a flood in a matter of days
The stars aligned in a way that indicated Alison will die tomorrow
God is angry at him for marrying so young
Absalon is trying to steal Alison away from him.
What happens when Absalon comes to the window the first time and asks for a kiss?
She gives him a quick kiss on the cheek
She ignored him
She tricks him into kissing her arse
She tricks him into kissing Nicholas
After Absalon burns Nicholas’ arse, and the carpenter crashes down from the rafters the neighbors come to find out what all screaming and yelling is about, what do Alison and Nicholas say about John?
He’s hurt, help him
He’s crazy
He attacked them
He wants to divorce Alison
What is the moral of “The Miller’s Tale”?
Think before you speak
A man should marry someone like himself
Never trust a student
Always treat your wife well
In “The Reeve’s Tale” who is Simpkin?
The Miller
The Warden
A Student
The Carpenter
What was Simpkin most known for?
Having a beautiful daughter
His honorable work practices
Cheating and stealing from his customers
Going to church
Why did Alan and John go to the Miller's house?
It was their job--a part of their work at the college.
They thought they could keep the Miller from cheating the college.
The warden was sick and asked them to go in his place.
They wanted to meet Molly, his daughter.
What did the Miller do to get the best of Alan and John?
Got them drunk and took 1/2 bushel of their flour
Let their horse go free then stole some flour
Skimmed off about 1/2 bushel of their flour as it was being milled
Stole their horse
What did Alan and John NOT do to get even with the Miller?
Slept with his daughter
Slept with his wife
Drank all his liquor
Escaped with a free meal & night of lodging
Which of the following phrases best describes the moral of “The Reeve’s Tale”?
“tricksters will get a tricking.”
“a man should pick an equal for his mate.”
“stupid is as stupid does.”
“when in Rome…”
“The Pardoner's Tale”: The three young men at the beginning of the "Pardoner's Tale" originally set out to…
Find Gold
Kill Death
Play Pranks
Discover the Old Man's Identity
In “The Pardoner’s Tale,” an old man tells the three rioters that Death is waiting under a tree. Why do they find gold there instead of Death?
The old man wants to reward them
The old man knew death would quickly ensue
The old man is God
The old man is senile
What is ironic about the Pardoner’s statements here?
he is lying, but the rest of the pilgrims do not know that yet
the Pardoner uses sarcasm to get his point across.
the Pardoner admits he’s greedy yet he preaches about greed’s destructiveness later.
he knows that he cannot win the storytelling contest.
What is the moral of “The Pardoner’s Tale”?
Death does not always come to those who seek it.
Greed is the root to all evil
Be wary of death
No one has real friends
Why does the Wife of Bath consider herself an expert on marriage?
Because she wrote a best-selling book on marriage
Because she has been married to the same man for 37 years
Because she has had five husbands
Because she is religious
What does she think her great power is?
Her use of rhetoric
Her physical strength
Her sexual power
Her fairy powers
Why were three of her husbands “good” husbands?
Because they were kind, generous, and loved her
Because they were rich, old and submissive
Because they let her cuckold them
Because they were young and exciting
Why did she hate her fourth husband?
He did not want to sleep with her
He abused her
He had a paramour (mistress)
He was not a nice guy
How did her fifth husband treat her?
He divorced her and left her heavily in debt
Constantly bought her flowers and gifts and flattered her
Ignored her and had affairs with other women
Treated her horribly, beat her and caused the deafness in her one ear.
In the Wife of Bath’s prologue, the following passage appears: “Then like a maddened lion, with a yell / He started up and smote me on the head, / And down I fell upon the floor for dead.” What is most nearly the meaning of the underlined word?
Tickled
Stood
Struck
Hugged
How did her fifth husband end up becoming her favorite of all?
He died and left her with a lot of money
He gave her power of the household and land
He was kind to her for the rest of their marriage
B and C
In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, the following passage appears: “He saw a maiden walking all forlorn / Ahead of him, alone as she was born. / And of that maiden, spite of all she said, / By very force he took her maidenhead.” What is most nearly the meaning of the underlined word?
Virginity
Mother
Head
Bonnet
What is the knights original sentence given to him by King Author?
Prision
Beheading
Iron Maiden
Banishment
The queen offers an alternative punishment. What was it?
He must return in a year with a rare flower guarded by a dragon.
He must return in a year with the correct answer to what women most desire.
He must marry an old woman and be miserable forever.
He must return in a year with 100 soldiers to fight in a tournament.
What answer does the old hag give the knight on condition that he marries her if it’s right?
Women want to be in charge of their significant other
Women want what is forbidden them and run from what they can get
Women want to be flattered and bought pretty things
Women want to be taken care of
How does the Knight’s answer connect with the Wife of Bath’s attitudes suggested in her “Prologue”?
It is what the Wife of Bath desires most
It goes against the Wife of Bath’s desires.
It suggests nothing - it’s just a story
It represents the only time she is able to say something controversial.
Does the knight choose for the old woman to be ugly but loyal or young and beautiful but unfaithful?
He wants her to be young and beautiful.
He wants her to be ugly but loyal.
He wants her to a little bit of both.
He lets her choose.
What happens at the end of "The Wife of Baths Tale"?
The old woman becomes young and beautiful and they live happily ever after.
The old woman becomes young and runs off with a poor astrologer.
The old woman turns out to be the Wife of Bath.
The old woman decides the knight will never love her and leaves, and the knight meets the love of his life the next day.
The Wife of Bath’s philosophy of marriage shows that she…
tends to say one thing and do the opposite
is a strong person with a keen sense of her own rights and value.
trusts too much to thought instead of feeling.
cares only for pleasure, not for right and wrong.
Based on the final lines of her tale, “And--Jesu hear my prayer!--cut short the lives/ Of those who won’t be governed by their wives;/ And all old angry niggards of their pence,/ God send them soon a very pestilence!” the Wife of Bath has spent much of her life fighting for . . .
Romance
God
Control
Wealth
