TESTS for DLP British Litt. Chapters 1-5 Test 2/7

1. _______ identified Chaucer as the father of the English literary canon.(a) Dryden (b) Johnson (d) Saintsbury (d) Puttenham

2. Which of the following is not remembered by the narrator as a quality of the Knight?(a) “truth” (b) “freedom” (c) “courtesy” (d) “manly”

3. Which character is upset to hear about tragic falls of men and would rather hear about “joye and greet solas,” about men who start off in poverty climbing in fortune and attaining wealth?(a) Knight (b) Squire (c) Prioress (d) Monk

4. Which of the following is not true about the Squire?(a) dances (b) plays the pipe (c) dresses fashionably (d) is humble and modest

5. Which character sings the ballad “Com hider, love, to me!”?(a) Friar (b) Miller (c) Pardoner (d) Squire

6. In which of the following ways is the Wife of Bath worldly?(a) she has travelled all over the world (b) she has experience in love and sex (c) she loves worldly possessions (d) all of the above

7. The Wife of Bath wears stockings of ______ colour, which indicates her wealth.(a) pure white (b) scarlet (c) deep blue (d) red

8. In the Middle Ages, Bath was known for the _________ industry.(a) cloth-making (b) printing (c) glass and lens (d) none of the above

9. Who ignored the Rule of Maurice and Saint Benedict as old-fashioned and strict?(a) Prioress (b) Friar (c) Pardoner (d) Monk

10. Which is the character who is a “forester” like “Robin Hood,” carrying arrows, sword, sheath and a hunting horn, and wearing a “coat and hood of green”?(a) Reeve (b) Yeoman (c) Plowman (d) Franklin

11. Which character is a wealthy gentleman farmer in whose house food was so plenteous that meat and drink seemed to snow?(a) Franklin (b) Reeve (c) Manciple (d) Yeoman

12. Which character is wise, clever in his profession, wealthy, and seemed busier than he really is?(a) Merchant (b) Clerk (c) Sergeant of Law (d) Manciple

13. The second nun accompanies _________.(a) the Prioress (b) Nun’s Priest (c) Franklin (d) Clerk of Oxford

14. _______ is the name of the Nun’s priest.(a) Hubert (b) Robyn (c) Oswald (d) John

15. Which character prefers to be out of the cloister?(a) the Clerk (b) the Monk (c) the Friar (d) the Parson

16. Which character offers to tell the “lyf of Seint Edward” but proceeds to define the medieval tradition of tragedy and give examples?(a) the Monk (b) the Miller (c) the Friar (d) the Parson

17. The Friar’s name is ________.(a) Hubert (b) Robyn (c) Oswald (d) John

18. Belonging to the mendicant order, the Friar lives by _______.(a) selling indulgences (b) preaching (c) begging (d) cheating people at the ecclesiastical courts

19. Friar tells a __________ about a summoner who loses his soul to the devil.(a) ballad (b) rondeau (c) romance (d) fabliau

20. The __________ is newly and unhappily married and tells the story of unhappy marriages between old men and young women (old man January is deceived by young wife May).(a) Cook (b) Merchant (c) Manciple (d) Franklin

21. The _______’s tale (an answer to Wife of Bath’s tale which argues that women must dominate in marriage) is about Griselda, an infinitely patient wife who endures the ill-treatment of her husband.

(a) Clerk of Oxford (b) Parson (c) Squire (d) Prioress22. The _________ makes a great show of his learning, citing cases all the way back to William the

Conqueror.(a) Doctor of Physique (b) The Manciple (c) Sergeant of Law (d) the Clerk

23. Who of the following tells a tale in The Canterbury Tales?(a) the Carpenter (b) the Reeve (c) the Plowman (d) the Haberdasher

24. _______ is the Cook’s name.(a) Robyn (b) John (c) Roger (d) Hubert

25. Which of these characters tells an unfinished tale?(a) the Miller (b) the Monk (c) the Franklin (d) the Cook