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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the Wife of Bath and Jankyn to fight?

2. What animal does the king's daughter nurse back to health in the Squire’s Tale?

3. How does the Cook react to the Reeve's tale?

4. In the Clerk’s Tale, how does the king's charade end?

5. What is the name of the apprentice cook?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the townspeople react to the situation after John crashes through the ceiling?

2. How is the Friar's Tale uncomplimentary to summoners?

3. Why does the Host come up with the storytelling contest?

4. Why is the Knight's Tale fitting for his character?

5. Why are Palamon and Arcite jealous of each other when Arcite is released from the tower?

6. Why can there be no real determination of the outcome of the Cook's Tale?

7. Why does the Man of Law tell a story he heard once before?

8. What could be considered controversial about the Wife of Bath's Tale?

9. What makes the friar in the Summoner's Tale corrupt?

10. Why is it fitting for the Squire to begin the tale that he does?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define conflict. Identify each type of conflict and give an example from The Canterbury Tales. Which type of conflict do you think is the most effective? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the fragmentation that exists in The Canterbury Tales. Why do you think Chaucer left the fragments in the story? What does this reveal about his writing process? What does this reveal about him?

Essay Topic 3

Explain chivalry. What pilgrims are chivalrous in The Canterbury Tales? How are they chivalrous? What role does chivalry play in the tales the pilgrims tell?

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