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

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

3. Who does the Host ask to tell the next tale?
(a) The Pardoner.
(b) The Shipman.
(c) The Prioress.
(d) The Monk.

4. Who does the Prioress praise in her prologue?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) St. Thomas Beckett.
(c) The Host.
(d) God.

5. How much of the town in the Prioress's Tale is Jewish?
(a) About 50%.
(b) Nearly 75%.
(c) About 25%.
(d) Less than 10%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Virginius kill Virginia?

2. Who is the subject of the Second Nun's Tale?

3. Who tells the Tale of Melibee?

4. Who is Virginia?

5. Where does the Pardoner's Tale begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Virginius kill his daughter?

3. What is the style of the Nun's Priest's Tale?

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

5. What is the purpose of the Canon's Yeoman's Prologue?

6. What is the common moral in the Monk's tragedies?

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

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

9. How does the Prioress emphasize the idea that the boy in her tale is a victim?

10. What is the moral the Canon's Yeoman is trying to get across?

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