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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nicholas tell John which allows him to spend the night with Alison?
(a) A second flood is coming.
(b) There will be a spectacular meteor shower.
(c) He must travel to London to save his soul.
(d) He insists that Alison is possessed by a spirit and only he can exorcise it.

2. Why is the apprentice cook able to revel all day?
(a) He quits his apprenticeship.
(b) He marries a rich woman.
(c) He is dismissed by his master.
(d) He becomes a private cook for a man who travels frequently.

3. What does the miller refill half the students' the flour sack with?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Sand.
(c) Bran.
(d) Baby powder.

4. Why does the Reeve feel the way he does about the Miller's Tale?
(a) He was once a parish clerk.
(b) He was once an astronomy student.
(c) He remembers the event from a town he once lived in.
(d) He was once a carpenter.

5. What is the name of the apprentice cook?
(a) Perkin.
(b) Roger.
(c) Landon.
(d) He is unnamed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Sultan baptized?

2. Where is the Narrator going?

3. What does Absalom get from the blacksmith?

4. Why does the Priest refuse to tell the next story?

5. Who sleeps with the miller's wife?

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