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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Summoner's Prologue and Tale.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a manciple?
(a) An accountant.
(b) A shift supervisor.
(c) An owner of the mill.
(d) A steward.

2. Who ultimately wins Emilie's hand?
(a) No one; she remains unmarried.
(b) Theseus.
(c) Arcite.
(d) Palamon.

3. Whose story moves Theseus to overthrow Creon?
(a) Palamon and Arcite.
(b) Emilie.
(c) Four women whose husbands have died.
(d) Hippolyte.

4. Why does the Reeve feel the way he does about the Miller's Tale?
(a) He was once an astronomy student.
(b) He remembers the event from a town he once lived in.
(c) He was once a parish clerk.
(d) He was once a carpenter.

5. Who wants to marry Lady Constance?
(a) The Sultan's son.
(b) The Sultan.
(c) The merchants.
(d) Lady Constance's cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Sultan baptized?

2. Who helps the knight answer the question?

3. How long does Lady Constance roam at sea?

4. What caused the Wife of Bath and Jankyn to fight?

5. What is different about the Miller's section in comparison to the Knight's section?

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