TESTS for DLP British Litt. Chapters 1-5 Test 4/7

1. In the Pardoner’s Tale, three drunken men set out from a bar to find and kill ______.(a) Summoner (b) a fox (c) Death (d) Satan

2. Whose tale qualifies as a medieval sermon?(a) Parson (b) Monk (c) Summoner (d) Pardoner

3. Who of the following tells tales set in the Orient?(a) Sergeant of Law (b) Squire (c) Neither (d) Both

4. Who marries Emelye in the Knight’s Tale?(a) Palamon (b) Arcite (c) Creon (d) Theseus

5. Whose tale involves a talking falcon who has been abandoned by her false lover?(a) Manciple (b) Squire (c) Wife of Bath (d) None of these

6. Who of the following does not tell the tale of a patient, suffering woman?(a) Sergeant of Law (b) Clerk (c) Miller (d) Doctor of Physic

7. What does the Prioress’s name “Eglentyne” mean?(a) beautiful maiden (b) sweet briar (c) pearl (d) rosemary

8. What do women desire most, according to the Wife of Bath?(a) beauty (b) love (c) reverence (d) sovereignty

9. What is the source of the Wife of Bath’s tale?(a) Roman de la Rose (b) Decameron (b) The Bible (d) Ovid’s Metamorphoses

10. Who is described as “An outrider, who loved his venery”?(a) Yeoman (b) Franklin (c) Monk (d) Miller

11. Which philosopher is cited at the end of the General Prologue in support of the argument that it is best to speak plainly and tell the truth rather than to lie?(a) Plato (b) Aristotle (c) St. Augustine (d) St. Thomas Aquinas

12. Which pilgrim was clad in red and blue lined with taffeta and with thin silk?(a) Monk (b) Doctor of Physic (c) Shipman (d) Merchant

13. How many mortal battles had the knight fought?(a) fifteen (b) twenty-five (c) twenty-two (d) fifty

14. Which character looked like a fish out of water as he sat on his horse?(a) The Monk (b) The Cook (c) The Shipman (d) The Sergeant of Law

15. How many tales were originally planned in The Canterbury Tales?(a) 90 (b) 120 (c) 150 (d) 200

16. Which pilgrim’s tale is based on Boccaccio’s courtly romance Teseida?(a) The Knight (b) The Squire (c) The Prioress (d) The Wife of Bath

17. Which object does the Pardoner claim is Virgin Mary’s veil?(a) a kerchief (b) towel (c) a bedsheet (d) a pillowcase

18. What is the name of the rooster, who is the protagonist in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale?(a) Reynard (b) Nicholas (c) Chanticleer (d) Isengrim

19. Which pilgrim came from Dartmouth?(a) The Reeve (b) The Shipman (c) The Manciple (d) The Merchant

20. Which of the following pilgrims did not tell a fabliau?(a) Miller (b) Cook (c) Summoner (d) all of these

21. Which character pays his tithes “ful faire and well” and “lives in pees and perfect charitee”?(a) The Plowman (b) The Franklin (c) The Parson (d) The Reeve

22. Who is the charlatan who passes off pigs’ bones as saints’ relics?(a) The Summoner (b) The Pardoner (c) The Friar (d) The Monk

23. Which character believes that the caricature of the carpenter in the Miller’s Tale is aimed at him and counters with his own story that mocks the arrogance of the Miller?(a) The Franklin (b) The Yeoman (c) The Reeve (d) The Manciple

24. Which pilgrim tells the story of a knight named Arveragus, his wife Dorigen, and her suitor Aurelius, who is asked by Dorigen to remove the rocks of Brittany coast?(a) The Summoner (b) The Sailor (c) The Sergeant of Law (d) The Franklin

25. Which pilgrim tells the story of the maiden Virginia who is killed by her father to prevent the judge Apius from ravishing her?(a) The Merchant (b) The Physician (c) The Miller (d) The Manciple