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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 color are the crow's feathers after Phoebus replaces them?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

2. Where does the Manciple's Tale begin?
(a) Egypt.
(b) A faraway land.
(c) The forest.
(d) Canterbury.

3. What kind of tale do the pilgrims ask the Pardoner to tell?
(a) A vulgar one.
(b) One with a moral.
(c) A comedic one.
(d) One about faith.

4. Who does the canon in the Yeoman's Tale borrow a mark from?
(a) A yeoman.
(b) A monk.
(c) A merchant.
(d) A priest.

5. What books are retracted at the end of The Canterbury Tales?
(a) A book he has not yet published.
(b) None of them.
(c) All of his best works.
(d) The Canterbury Tales.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Cecilia love?

3. What is Appius's profession?

4. Who directs the boy's mother to where his body has been cast in the Prioress's Tale?

5. Who is the speaker of Chaucer's Retraction?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the Second Nun's Tale so appropriate for her?

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

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

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

6. What is common in the books Chaucer retracts?

7. Why does Virginius kill his daughter?

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

9. What becomes the downfall for both Chanticleer and the fox in the Nun's Priest's Tale?

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

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