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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 caused the Wife of Bath and Jankyn to fight?
(a) He went on a fishing trip on their anniversary.
(b) He refused to give her any money.
(c) He was reading about unfaithful women from his book.
(d) He had an affair.

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

3. What punishment does Theseus give Palamon and Arcite?
(a) Imprisonment in Thebes.
(b) Servitude in Creon.
(c) Imprisonment in Athens.
(d) Servitude in Athens.

4. Why is the Sultan baptized?
(a) She insists.
(b) Her father insists.
(c) He is Muslim and Lady Constance is Christian.
(d) He wants to be pure for Lady Constance.

5. Who curses the summoner?
(a) A farmer.
(b) The yeoman.
(c) A rich widow.
(d) The archdeacon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Absalom get from the blacksmith?

2. What does the knight in the Wife of Bath's Tale do that gets him in trouble?

3. Who employs the summoner in The Friar's Tale?

4. Who is the focus of the Summoner's Tale?

5. Why is the apprentice cook able to revel all day?

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