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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Man of Law say he will not use in his tale?
(a) Real people.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Truth.
(d) Any of the pilgrims' professions.

2. Why does the knight's wife transform into a beautiful woman?
(a) He asks her to.
(b) The queen allows her to.
(c) He lets her make a decision.
(d) She doesn't.

3. What wakes John?
(a) A rooster.
(b) Nicholas's cry for water.
(c) A townsperson.
(d) Absalom wakes him to tell him what's happening.

4. What does the corrupt man's wife have?
(a) An inheritance.
(b) A shop.
(c) A library.
(d) An inn.

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

6. What is the Narrator's name?
(a) Sir Topas.
(b) Sir Gawain.
(c) The Narrator's name is not given.
(d) Geoffrey Chaucer.

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

8. Who is Dorigen?
(a) Arveragus's squire.
(b) The wife Arveragus takes.
(c) The queen of Arveragus's kingdom.
(d) Arveragus's brother.

9. Where does the apprentice cook work?
(a) Dublin.
(b) London.
(c) Canterbury.
(d) On a ship.

10. How long does Lady Constance roam at sea?
(a) A year and a day.
(b) A liturgical year.
(c) Until the snows came.
(d) “Many months.”

11. Where is the Narrator going?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) London.
(c) Canterbury.
(d) The town is not given.

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

13. Where did the Wife of Bath meet Jankyn?
(a) On her birthday.
(b) At her fourth husband's funeral.
(c) On a pilgrimage.
(d) In church.

14. Who reminds the Cook he must tell a good tale?
(a) The Host.
(b) The Pardoner.
(c) The Prioress.
(d) The Narrator.

15. Who employs the summoner in The Friar's Tale?
(a) An archdeacon.
(b) A bishop.
(c) A priest.
(d) A mayor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vision did the friar in the Summoner's Prologue have?

2. What is the Cook's name?

3. How many wives has the Wife of Bath had?

4. Whose story moves Theseus to overthrow Creon?

5. Why does the Reeve want to tell the next tale?

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