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Notice and Wonder The Prologue

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 42mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a summoner?

a)

A person from the medieval church who calls, or summons people before the church for their crimes.

b)

A person who owns or works in a grain mill (making wheat into flour).

c)

A member of the religious clergy, like a priest.

d)

A person who owns or works in a grain mill (making wheat into flour).

2.

What is a pardoner?

a)

A member of the religious clergy, like a priest.

b)

A person who owns or works in a grain mill (making wheat into flour).

c)

A person from the medieval church who calls, or summons people before the church for their crimes.

d)

A person who sells official pardons, or excuses from sins, from the church (to raise money for the church).

3.

What is a parson?

a)

A person who sells official pardons, or excuses from sins, from the church (to raise money for the church).

b)

A person who owns or works in a grain mill (making wheat into flour).

c)

A member of the religious clergy, like a priest.

d)

A person from the medieval church who calls, or summons people before the church for their crimes.

4.

What is a miller?

a)

A member of the religious clergy, like a priest.

b)

A person who sells official pardons, or excuses from sins, from the church (to raise money for the church).

c)

A person from the medieval church who calls, or summons people before the church for their crimes.

d)

A person who owns or works in a grain mill (making wheat into flour).

5.

What is a pilgrimage?

a)

to establish the ideal of the Renaissance man

b)

something to do with birds

c)

a long trip taken to a sacred place for a religious or moral purpose.

d)

a rural estate

6.

Please select ALL the characters that have been introduced so far

a)

The narrator (Geoffrey)

b)

Thomas Becket (The Archbishop of Canterbury)

c)

The innkeeper (Harry Bailey)

d)

The pilgrims

e)

The knight (that has grey hair)

7.

What is going in The Prologue? (select ALL that apply)

a)

There are around 30 people in the tavern and the innkeeper is excited because he is making money.

b)

They are getting ready to start on the trip and it is a very pretty day outside. The sun is also shinning.

c)

The knight got the short straw and has to tell his story first, but he doesn't really want to.

d)

The narrator likes the knight, because he is kind and noble looking and seems like he has a good story to tell.

e)

The innkeeper smells of onions, has sores, and there is something wrong with his skin.

8.

The innkeeper proposed they have a storytelling competition on the way to Canterbury and the best story will win. The innkeeper gets to be the judge and if anyone disagrees with his rules they must pay ALL of the expenses for the trip.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

The one who is the religious person

a)

Pardoner

b)

The Clergyman

c)

Summoner

d)

Ship's Captain

e)

The Knight

10.

The one who smelled like onions and had a bad face

a)

The pardoner

b)

The Ship's Captain

c)

The Clergyman

d)

The Summoner

11.

The one who is a man, but looks like a woman

a)

The Pardoner

b)

The Summoner

c)

The Clergyman

d)

The Ship's Captain

12.

The one who was on Geoffrey's horse by mistake

a)

The Summoner

b)

The Pardoner

c)

The Ship's Captain

d)

The Knight

13.

List at least one thing that you noticed (observation) in The Prologue.

4 lines
14.

List at least one thing that you wondered (question) in The Prologue.

4 lines