The Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale and The Nun's Priest's Tale

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  1. Before he tells his tale, the Pardoner expresses the need to:
    Stop in at a church
    Take a brief rest by the side of the road
    Stop at a tavern for a bit of .corny ale.
  2. About his own profession, the Pardoner indicates that:
    He does it strictly for the money and could care less about the people he pardons
    He cares greatly about the people he pardons and feels he is doing a great amount of good
    He says he cares a great deal about what he is doing.
  3. The Pardoner says that in his sermons his main theme is:
    Courage
    Pride
    Avarice
  4. Avarice can be defined as an inordinate desire for:
    Sex
    Money
    Alcoholic beverages
    Food
  5. At the beginning of the Pardoner.s tale, three drunkards agree to go avenge the death of their friend. They are told that the person who killed their friend is named:
    Death
    Nicolas
    Absolon
  6. Instead of finding the person they seek under the oak tree, they find:
    A pretty young girl
    An ugly old hag
    A wise old man
    A cask of Spanish wine
    A bag of gold
  7. What happens to the three revelers?
    All three are poisoned.
    Two are stabbed to death; the third is poisoned.
    Two are poisoned; one is stabbed to death.
    All three are stabbed to death.
  8. At the end of his tale, the Pardoner encourages everyone on the pilgrimage to:
    Come forth and pay him for his pardons
    Come forth and confess their sins to him
    Share a tankard of corny ale with him
  9. The Pardoner encourages this particular pilgrim to be the first:
    The Miller
    The Wife of Bath
    The Host
    The Knight
  10. As a key part of his profession, the Pardoner carries around with him:
    An ancient Bible
    A lucky rock
    Holy relics, supposedly pieces of the garments or other possessions of biblical figures
    A tin cup to receive coins given to him as he begs
  11. When the Pardoner and the Host get into a verbal fight, this person gets them to make up:
    The Knight
    The Miller
    The narrator
  12. The Host is:
    The owner of the tavern where these pilgrims start off for Canterbury
    The owner of a tavern in Canterbury where they will all stay when they arrive
    A professional guide who makes all the arrangements for the pilgrimage
  13. The Nun's Priest's Tale is an example of:
    A fabliau, an offcolor story of lowerclass people
    A beast fable, a story illustrating a moral principle with talking animals as the main characters
    A beast fable, an offcolor story with talking animals
    A fabliau, a story illustrating a moral principle with lowerclass people as the main characters
  14. The Nun's Priest's Tale is very much like the works of:
    Chaucer
    Beowulf
    Shakespeare
    Aesop
  15. Most of this tale takes place:
    In a country barnyard
    In a park adjacent to a royal manor house
    In the streets of London
  16. The owner of this place and most of the animals therein is:
    A farmer and his wife
    The prioress of a nunnery
    A poor widow
  17. Chaunticleer is a:
    Hen
    Rooster
    Fox
    Dog
  18. Pertelote is a:
    Hen
    Rooster
    Fox
    Dog
  19. The thing that Chaunticleer does best is:
    Hunt
    Sing (crow)
    Fight
    Write scholarly treatises
  20. The story starts when:
    Chaunticleer complains that he has has a bad dream
    Pertelote complains that he has has a bad dream
    A fox gets into the henhouse
  21. When she hears about this, Pertelote:
    Chides Chaunticleer for being scared of bad dreams, of taking them seriously
    Sympathizes with Chaunticleer and tries to make him feel better
    Worries that all the hens will be slaughtered, including herself
  22. After Chaunticleer's nightmare, the two have a long scholarly debate on:
    Whether to take dreams seriously, whether they predict the future
    What they should do to protect the henhouse from the fox
    Whether Chaunticleer is the best performer of his particular craft in the known universe
  23. The character who argues that dreams have validity, that they should be taken seriously, and that they may be predictors of the future is:
    Chaunticleer
    Pertelote
    The widow
    The fox
    Malle
  24. The character who argues that dreams have no validity, that they should not be taken seriously, and that they do not predict the future is:
    Chaunticleer
    Pertelote
    The widow
    The fox
    Malle
  25. At the end of this debate:
    Chaunticleer is convinced not to take dreams seriously
    Chaunticleer is not convinced not to take dreams seriously
    Pertelote is convinced not to take dreams seriously
    Pertelote is not convinced not to take dreams seriously
  26. Chaunticleer says that the main thing that enables him to overcome is fear is:
    His love for Pertelote
    His certainty in his own courage and strength
    His knowledge that the widow's dogs will protect them
  27. After the debate on dreams, the next event that occurs is that:
    Pertelote sees a a fox
    Chaunticleer sees a fox
    The widow sees a fox
  28. Chaunticleer is caught when:
    He is not looking
    He agrees to show off how well he can sing (crow)
    He is asleep
    The fox sneeks up on him
  29. Chaunticleer manages to escape when:
    The dogs run out and scare the fox
    Pertelote pleads with the fox to spare the life of her husband
    Chaunticleer tricks the fox into opening his mouth to speak
  30. According to the final lines of The Nun's Priest's Tale, the moral of this story has to do with:
    Truth
    Virtue
    Flattery
    Courage

   

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