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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. Where is the Narrator going?

2. What kind of tale does the Friar offer to tell?

3. What is the question the knight must answer?

4. Who did the Host ask to speak after the Knight's Tale?

5. What is the name of the apprentice cook?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Host ask the Clerk to tell a tale after the Summoner's Tale?

2. What is the significance of Lady Constance's name in the Man of Law's Tale?

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

4. Why does the Narrator tell the Miller's Tale despite his concern of its vulgarity?

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

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

7. What is the point the Summoner makes about friars with the anecdote in his Prologue?

8. Why are the characters in the Franklin's Tale rewarded?

9. Why does January say he wants to marry? Why does he likely really want to marry?

10. What is the Squire's plan before he is interrupted?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define fable. Explain the uses of fables in literature. Explain the use of fable in The Canterbury Tales. Why is a fable a useful tale in The Canterbury Tales?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the setting of The Canterbury Tales. How does the setting of a pilgrimage contribute to the individual pilgrims' tales? How would the story be different if Chaucer had used a different setting?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the society in which Geoffrey Chaucer lived. What was the religious climate? What was the political and social climate?

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