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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening at the beginning of the poem?
(a) The Trojan War.
(b) A Wedding.
(c) A horrible famine.
(d) A day of feast.

2. Why does Calkas flee to the enemy?
(a) He has important information for them.
(b) He has always been a spy for them.
(c) He knows that his daughter is being held for ransom there.
(d) He has seen a vision that Troy will fall.

3. What color does Criseyde always wear?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

4. What does a friend of Troilus say to try to make him mad?
(a) That his father is a traitor and so is he.
(b) That a knight like him will never advance in the ranks.
(c) That Criseyde will never love a commoner.
(d) That he is sad about the Greek blood that he has spilt.

5. What does Troilus do to leave the festival early?
(a) He pretends he has important work to do.
(b) He reads a poem.
(c) He pays a fee.
(d) He pretends to be sick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hector's title?

2. What does Chaucer say he hopes his poem provides?

3. What does the narrator say helps Criseyde outshine all the other women?

4. Where is this poem set?

5. Which of the following does Troilus say that he will never lose sleep over in Book I?

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