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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Man of Law say he will not use in his tale?
(a) Truth.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Any of the pilgrims' professions.
(d) Real people.

2. Whose story moves Theseus to overthrow Creon?
(a) Emilie.
(b) Four women whose husbands have died.
(c) Hippolyte.
(d) Palamon and Arcite.

3. Who restores January's sight?
(a) Pluto.
(b) Venus.
(c) An angel.
(d) Prosperpina.

4. Who is the focus of the Man of Law's tale?
(a) Pilgrims.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Men of law.
(d) Innkeepers.

5. Who did the Host ask to speak after the Knight's Tale?
(a) The Wife of Bath.
(b) The Nun's Priest.
(c) The Prioress.
(d) The Monk.

6. Who interrupts the Squire's tale?
(a) The Prioress.
(b) The Narrator.
(c) The Franklin.
(d) The Host.

7. What does Dorigen see that makes her nervous about her husband's safety?
(a) Smoke in the distance.
(b) A tournament.
(c) A map.
(d) Rocks on the shore.

8. What caused the Wife of Bath and Jankyn to fight?
(a) He went on a fishing trip on their anniversary.
(b) He had an affair.
(c) He refused to give her any money.
(d) He was reading about unfaithful women from his book.

9. Who does January marry?
(a) June.
(b) Aurora.
(c) May.
(d) April.

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

11. Who warns the Friar before he tells his tale?
(a) The Summoner.
(b) The Monk.
(c) The Host.
(d) The Nun's Priest.

12. What is the job of the spies in The Friar's Tale?
(a) To get information for homilies.
(b) To gather information about parish members.
(c) To gather tithes from parish members.
(d) To find out who is speaking out against the church.

13. Why is the Sultan baptized?
(a) She insists.
(b) He is Muslim and Lady Constance is Christian.
(c) He wants to be pure for Lady Constance.
(d) Her father insists.

14. What kind of language does the Host use to ask the Man of Law to tell his tale?
(a) Legal language.
(b) Latin.
(c) French.
(d) Vernacular.

15. Who first sees Emilie and falls in love with her?
(a) Palamon.
(b) Palamon and Arcite see her simultaneously.
(c) Neither; Emilie first sees Arcite and falls in love with him.
(d) Arcite.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Cook have to tell a good tale?

2. Who is released from prison?

3. Why does the Reeve feel the way he does about the Miller's Tale?

4. What does the knight in the Wife of Bath's Tale do that gets him in trouble?

5. Who is planning to attack the Christians at the wedding feast?

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