Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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In the
Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the Parson’s brother is the
a. | Doctor. | b. | Knight. | c. | Plowman. | d. | Oxford
Cleric. | | |
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The
Canterbury Tales is structured as a
a. | parody. | b. | folk ballad. | c. | melodrama. | d. | frame story. | | |
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In the
opening lines of “The Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, the
narrator
a. | criticizes
chivalry. | b. | attacks the corruption in the Church. | c. | rejoices in the
renewing cycle of life. | d. | establishes the ideal of the Renaissance
man. | | |
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The narrator
in “The Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales appears to be
a. | naive.
| b. | irritable. | c. | immoral. | d. | anti-social. | | |
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In “The
Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, the pilgrim whose profession gives him “a special
love of gold” is the
a. | Parson. | b. | Doctor. | c. | Summoner. | d. | Franklin. | | |
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In “The
Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer’s characters are
a. | on a religious
pilgrimage. | b. | part of a wedding party. | c. | in a riding
club. | d. | on their way to the Holy Land. | | |
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Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is
a. | shy. | b. | patient. | c. | independent. | d. | humourless. | | |
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Immediately
prior to joining the other pilgrims in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tale, the Knight
had
a. | been at
court. | b. | gone to visit his rural estate. | c. | been engaged in battles
overseas. | d. | bought new clothes for the pilgrimage. | | |
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In “The
Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, the pilgrim who neglects his religious duties in order
to hunt is the
a. | Parson. | b. | Monk. | c. | Pardoner. | d. | Summoner. | | |
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In
describing the Friar as “a noble pillar to his Order,” Chaucer uses
a. | epigram. | b. | irony. | c. | inversion. | d. | apostrophe. | | |
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