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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Aurelius despondent?
(a) He misses Arveragus.
(b) He has been sentenced to death.
(c) He is in love with Dorigen.
(d) He is lost.

2. What happens to Sophia in the end of the Tale of Melibee?
(a) She marries one of the burglars.
(b) She is killed.
(c) It is not known.
(d) She lives out her days in the woods.

3. What does Thomas's wife want the friar to preach to Thomas about?
(a) Envy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Gluttony.
(d) Lust.

4. Why does the friar tell Thomas the brothers have been praying for him?
(a) He has been ill a long time.
(b) His wife asks the friar to say that.
(c) He is rewriting his will.
(d) His wife has promised their estate to the friar.

5. Who falls from his horse after the Yeoman's Tale?
(a) The Manciple.
(b) The Pardoner.
(c) The Cook.
(d) The Parson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told the Clerk the tale he tells?

2. Where were the friars in the vision from the Summoner's Prologue?

3. Where does the Manciple's Tale begin?

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

5. Where does the Tale of Sir Topas begin?

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