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WorksheetsCanterbury Tales
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 19mins
Shakespeare wrote his plays in...
Old English
Middle English
Early Modern English
Modern English
The Canterbury Tales is a...
Nonfiction Book
Collection of short stories
Memoir
Play
Which of these is NOT one of the pilgrims listed in the prologue as a character in this book?
Miller
Franklin
Wigmaker
Nun
The pilgrims are traveling to which place?
Canterbury
London
Bath
Tabard
This image shows an example of...
Old English
Middle English
Early Modern English
Modern English
This image shows an example of...
Old English
Middle English
Early Modern English
Modern English
This image shows an example of...
Old English
Middle English
Early Modern English
Modern English
Which of these is one of the main 12 character archetypes?
The Curmudgeon
The Fairy
The Witch
The Hero
In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," what crime does the knight commit?
He steals from King Arthur
He rapes a woman
He kills an innocent man
He lies to his mother
In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," what question is the knight tasked with finding the answer to?
What do women want most in the world?
What is the meaning of life?
What is the root of all evil in the world?
What does the fox say?
In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," the hag offers a choice to the knight. She will either be ugly and loyal or beautiful and unfaithful. Which does the knight choose?
ugly and loyal
beautiful and unfaithful
Both
Neither
The Canterbury Tales were written by...
William Shakespeare
an unknown author
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dante
What is significant about the Wife of Bath's Tale in the historical context of the book? In other words, what makes it (& the Wife of Bath herself) unique?
Which of these is true about Geoffrey Chaucer?
He was captured in a war & ransomed for £16
He was the first poet buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey
He originally planned to write many more stories for The Canterbury Tales.
He was a member of Parliament in England (like Congress)
Draw a picture of the season that the narrator describes at the very beginning of the Prologue.
