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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Summoner react to the Friar's Tale?
(a) He finds it funny.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He enjoys it.
(d) He expresses no opinion about it.

2. Who did the Host ask to speak after the Knight's Tale?
(a) The Wife of Bath.
(b) The Prioress.
(c) The Nun's Priest.
(d) The Monk.

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

4. Why does January want to marry?
(a) To have a son.
(b) For companionship.
(c) To have someone to take care of him.
(d) To have someone to take care of.

5. What does the Miller say his tale is about?
(a) A group on a pilgrimage.
(b) Saints.
(c) A love triangle.
(d) A drunken brawl.

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

7. Who restores January's sight?
(a) An angel.
(b) Pluto.
(c) Venus.
(d) Prosperpina.

8. Who is planning to attack the Christians at the wedding feast?
(a) The Sultan.
(b) The Sultan's brother.
(c) The Sultan's mother.
(d) The Sultan's men.

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

10. Who does January marry?
(a) June.
(b) May.
(c) Aurora.
(d) April.

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

12. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Sir Gawain.
(d) Geoffrey Chaucer.

13. In the Clerk’s Tale, how does the king's charade end?
(a) The king marries his daughter.
(b) His wife is kidnapped by an enemy king.
(c) His wife dies of heartache.
(d) The king confesses that it was all a test.

14. Why does the king in the Clerk’s Tale take his daughter from his wife?
(a) To send her to a school.
(b) To protect her from enemies.
(c) To test her loyalty.
(d) In anger.

15. What is the standard punishment for the knight's crime?
(a) Death.
(b) Imprisonment.
(c) Banishment.
(d) Servitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Cook's name?

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

3. In the Clerk’s Tale, how old is the king's son when he is taken?

4. What punishment does Theseus give Palamon and Arcite?

5. Who ultimately wins Emilie's hand?

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