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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells the Tale of Melibee?
(a) The Host.
(b) The speaker is not known.
(c) Chaucer.
(d) The Narrator.

2. How much money does the merchant's wife ask for?
(a) Fifty francs.
(b) Two hundred francs.
(c) A hundred francs.
(d) Seventy-five francs.

3. How do the other two men find Death?
(a) They die of old age.
(b) They don't find Death.
(c) They are stabbed.
(d) They are poisoned.

4. What flower does the Prioress name in her prologue?
(a) A daisy.
(b) A lily.
(c) An orchid.
(d) A rose.

5. Why does the Host use as many medical terms as he can when speaking to the Physician after his tale?
(a) To show his praise of the story.
(b) To impress the rest of the pilgrims.
(c) To show that he has been educated in medical terminology.
(d) To keep the conversation going.

6. What animal tricks Chanticleer?
(a) A rooster.
(b) A fox.
(c) A dog.
(d) A horse.

7. Why does the boy in the Prioress's Tale want to learn the song he hears?
(a) To show his mother he is learning something in school.
(b) To sing on Christmas.
(c) To have something to do on his walk to school.
(d) To insult the Jewish boys.

8. Who does the canon in the Yeoman's Tale borrow a mark from?
(a) A merchant.
(b) A monk.
(c) A yeoman.
(d) A priest.

9. What do the cameos the Monk tells center around?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Drunkenness.
(c) Deceit.
(d) Trust.

10. How many times does the canon trick the priest?
(a) Once.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

11. Who is the focus of the Shipman's Tale?
(a) A shipman.
(b) A knight.
(c) A merchant.
(d) A nun.

12. Who is injured in the Tale of Melibee?
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Alison.
(c) Everdeen.
(d) Sophia.

13. Who is the speaker of Chaucer's Retraction?
(a) The speaker is not named.
(b) The Narrator.
(c) The Host.
(d) Chaucer.

14. What is Phoebus' vice?
(a) Vanity.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Gluttony.

15. What kind of tale does the Monk tell?
(a) Happy.
(b) Comdeic.
(c) Tragic.
(d) Religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells the Tale of Sir Topas?

2. Who falls from his horse after the Yeoman's Tale?

3. What kind of tale do the pilgrims ask the Pardoner to tell?

4. Who is Cecilia forced to marry?

5. What do the Canon and the Yeoman do?

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