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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the boy in the Prioress's Tale want to learn the song he hears?
(a) To have something to do on his walk to school.
(b) To show his mother he is learning something in school.
(c) To sing on Christmas.
(d) To insult the Jewish boys.

2. Who directs the boy's mother to where his body has been cast in the Prioress's Tale?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) No one.
(c) One of the Jewish boys.
(d) Jesus.

3. How many wives does Chanticleer have?
(a) Three.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Seven.
(d) Fifteen.

4. Where does the Prioress's Tale take place?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Asia.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Spain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Appius's profession?

2. What happens to Sophia in the end of the Tale of Melibee?

3. How does the youngest of the men find Death?

4. What does the Parson tell as his “story”?

5. What does the Second Nun warn against in her prologue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the irony of the Pardoner in his argument with the Host?

2. What is the parallel between the Prioress's Prologue and her Tale?

3. How is the merchant's wife able to buy the clothes she wants?

4. What is the significance of Virginia's name in the Physician's Tale?

5. What does Chaucer suggest by saying the Tale of Sir Topas includes his best rhymes?

6. Why does Virginius kill his daughter?

7. Why is it fitting that the tales end with something from Chaucer?

8. What is the parallel between the Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and his Tale?

9. What is the lesson the Second Nun's Tale teaches women?

10. What is a possible reason Chaucer writes his retraction?

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