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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) Vanity.
(b) Gluttony.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Anger.

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

3. What comparison does the Parson use for life?
(a) He says life is a tale.
(b) He says life is a pilgrimage.
(c) He says life is a dinner party.
(d) He says life is an ocean.

4. What do the Canon and the Yeoman do?
(a) They sell fabric.
(b) They are alchemists.
(c) The sing.
(d) They beg for whatever they get.

5. Who is Virginia?
(a) Virginius's wife.
(b) Appius's daughter.
(c) Virginius's daughter.
(d) Appius's wife.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the cameos the Monk tells center around?

3. What is Appius's profession?

4. What happens to Appius at the end of the Physician's Tale?

5. Why does the Canon leave the group?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does the Knight interrupt the Monk's Tale?

6. What is different about the Parson's Tale in comparison to the rest of the pilgrims' tales?

7. What kind of a man is Phoebus in the Manciple's Tale?

8. What is Phoebus's downfall in the Manciple's Tale?

9. What contributes heavily to the length of the Tale of Melibee?

10. What does the Pardoner admit about himself in his Prologue?

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