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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 Manciple.
(b) The Host's wife.
(c) The Canon and the Yeoman.
(d) The Parson.

2. Who tells the Tale of Sir Topas?
(a) The Manciple.
(b) Sir Topas.
(c) The Host.
(d) Chaucer.

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

4. Who asks the Parson to tell a story?
(a) The Pardoner.
(b) The Prioress.
(c) The Host.
(d) The Second Nun.

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

6. What is Appius's profession?
(a) He is a knight.
(b) He works for the church.
(c) He is a judge.
(d) He is a merchant.

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

8. Who does the Host discover sleeping in his saddle?
(a) The Parson.
(b) The Pardoner.
(c) The Cook.
(d) The Manciple.

9. What is the tone of the Parson's Tale?
(a) Casual.
(b) Light-hearted.
(c) Formal.
(d) Joyful.

10. What does the Second Nun warn against in her prologue?
(a) Idleness.
(b) Lust.
(c) Wrath.
(d) Greed.

11. Who offers to tell a tale after the Yeoman's Tale?
(a) The Cook.
(b) The Manciple.
(c) The Pardoner.
(d) The Parson.

12. What is Phoebus' vice?
(a) Vanity.
(b) Gluttony.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Anger.

13. How many sins does the Parson say everyone must avoid?
(a) Seven.
(b) He does not address a set number of sins.
(c) Only envy, since all others derive from it.
(d) All of them.

14. Who decrees Cecilia a saint after her death?
(a) Pope Urban.
(b) Pope Benedict XVI.
(c) Pope Leo.
(d) Pope John Paul II.

15. Who is injured in the Tale of Melibee?
(a) Alison.
(b) Everdeen.
(c) Chaucer.
(d) Sophia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the town in the Prioress's Tale is Jewish?

2. Why does the Host use as many medical terms as he can when speaking to the Physician after his tale?

3. Who does the Prioress praise in her prologue?

4. Who does the Host ask to tell the next tale?

5. Who does the speaker of the Retraction ask to pray for him?

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