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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. How does the youngest of the men find Death?
(a) He doesn't find Death.
(b) He is stabbed.
(c) He trades his life with the wandering man.
(d) He is poisoned.

2. Who does the speaker of the Retraction ask to pray for him?
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Everyone.
(c) The Pilgrims.
(d) The Host.

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

4. Who is the subject of the Second Nun's Tale?
(a) Francis.
(b) Cecilia.
(c) Thomas.
(d) The nun herself.

5. Who does Cecilia love?
(a) Her father.
(b) Tiburse.
(c) Valerian.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks the Parson to tell a story?

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

3. Who does Cecilia warn her new husband about?

4. What kind of tale do the pilgrims ask the Pardoner to tell?

5. What does the canon make the priest believe he turned quicksilver into?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the Host interrupt Chaucer's telling of the Tale of Sir Topas?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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