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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 do the cameos the Monk tells center around?
(a) Deceit.
(b) Trust.
(c) Fortune.
(d) Drunkenness.

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

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

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

5. Who approaches the group after the Second Nun's Tale?
(a) The Canon and the Yeoman.
(b) The Manciple.
(c) The Parson.
(d) The Host's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who killed the man in the coffin at the inn?

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

3. Who is the focus of the Shipman's Tale?

4. How does the merchant's wife offer to repay her loan?

5. Who falls from his horse after the Yeoman's Tale?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is common in the books Chaucer retracts?

5. Why is it fitting that the journey ends with the Parson's Tale?

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

7. What is the theology of life the Parson presents in his tale?

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

9. What is the twist at the end of the Pardoner's Tale?

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

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