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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who approaches the group after the Second Nun's Tale?
(a) The Parson.
(b) The Canon and the Yeoman.
(c) The Host's wife.
(d) The Manciple.

2. What does the Host do after the Prioress's Tale?
(a) He admonishes the Prioress for such a sad tale.
(b) He tells jokes.
(c) He stops the pilgrims for a rest.
(d) He asks the Yeoman for a comedic tale.

3. How much money does the merchant's wife ask for?
(a) Two hundred francs.
(b) A hundred francs.
(c) Seventy-five francs.
(d) Fifty francs.

4. What animal is Chanticleer?
(a) A fox.
(b) A rooster.
(c) A horse.
(d) A dog.

5. How do the other two men find Death?
(a) They don't find Death.
(b) They are poisoned.
(c) They die of old age.
(d) They are stabbed.

6. What does Claudius accuse Virginius of doing?
(a) Kidnapping his servant girl.
(b) Kidnapping his daughter.
(c) Stealing his goats.
(d) Killing his servant girl.

7. Who does the speaker of the Retraction ask to pray for him?
(a) Everyone.
(b) The Pilgrims.
(c) Chaucer.
(d) The Host.

8. What does the Parson tell as his “story”?
(a) A song.
(b) A sermon.
(c) Nothing; he does not tell a tale.
(d) A saint's life.

9. Who does the Second Nun invoke in her prologue?
(a) St. Francis de Sales.
(b) St. Cecilia.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) St. Thomas Beckett.

10. What color is Phoebus' crow?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

11. Who is Sir John?
(a) A frequent guest of the shipman.
(b) The knight's squire.
(c) A frequent guest of the nun.
(d) A frequent guest of the merchant.

12. How does the youngest of the men find Death?
(a) He doesn't find Death.
(b) He is poisoned.
(c) He is stabbed.
(d) He trades his life with the wandering man.

13. Who is Cecilia forced to marry?
(a) Tiburse.
(b) A lord who conquers her father's kingdom.
(c) Valerian.
(d) A corrupt deacon.

14. Who is the subject of the Second Nun's Tale?
(a) Francis.
(b) The nun herself.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Cecilia.

15. Where does the Tale of Sir Topas begin?
(a) Asia.
(b) Flanders.
(c) Canterbury.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times does the canon trick the priest?

2. What is Phoebus' vice?

3. How does the Parson react when asked to tell a story?

4. Why does Virginius kill Virginia?

5. Where does the Manciple's Tale begin?

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