WorksheetsQuiz #1 Canterbury Tales
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The biblical allusion (historical reference) within "The Miller's Tale" is the reference to
Noah's Ark
The Holy Grail
Moses' Flood
Plague of locusts
What do the cousins fight over?
Who gets to sleep closer to the prison tower window
Who can shoot an arrow more accurately into the garden below
How best to escape from prison
A woman, Emelye, whom they see from the prison tower
How do the Knights get freed?
Palamon is pardoned, and Arcite escapes.
Arcite is pardoned, and Palamon escapes.
They knock out the guard, steal his keys, and run out of the castle.
Emelye takes pity on them and lets them out one night.
(a) is the author of the Canterbury Tales.
Why are the travellers going to Canterbury?
They are on a pilgrimage to visit the healing waters of Aquinas.
They are on a pilgrimage to see the relics of St. Thomas Becket.
They are on a pilgrimage to see King Thomas Becket.
They are on a pilgrimage to visit the great Shakespearean theatre of Canterbury.
Where are the pilgrims going on their pilgrimage?
Tabard Inn
To the Host's House
Canterbury Cathedral
London
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Who is Theseus?
In the Knight's Tale he's the duke of Athens.
In the Pardoner's Tale he's death.
In the Wife of Bath's Tale he's her fourth husband.
In the Nun's Priest Tale he's the fox.
