The Canterbury Tales
Comprehensive review
The Rules
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Each team will receive one dry erase board
No team member may leave their seat at any point without
explicit permission.
Each team will have access to their review sheets for the first
set of questions. Each of these questions will be worth one
point. Subsequent questions will be worth two points
Each team will be allowed 10 seconds (20 seconds if it is
worth 2 points) to write their final answer on the dry erase
board. Only the answer written will be accepted.
Each team should, to the best of their availability, come up
with their answer using only their teammates and their review
sheets. If, however, a team overhears a response from another
team, I consider that the fault of the loud team member
ONE POINT
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Who is Catherine of Swynford’s husband?
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What is a Yeoman?
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Who is described in this passage?
A _________________________ was with us in that place,
Who had a fiery-red, cherubic face,
For eczema he had; his eyes were narrow
As hot he was, and lecherous, as a sparrow;
With black and scabby brows and scanty beard;
He had a face that little children feared.
There was no mercury, sulphur, or litharge,
No borax, ceruse, tartar, could discharge,
Nor ointment that could cleanse enough, or bite,
To free him of his boils and pimples white,
Nor of the bosses resting on his cheeks.
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What do Nicholas and Absalom have in
common
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If the character of
Death appears in an
episode of “The Family
Guy”, what genre of
tale could we say that
episode is?
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Name at least three characters from the
Prologue who are a member of the clergy?
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What literary work is based on Boccaccio’s
Decameron?
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Who is this?
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Who is St. Thomas A Becket?
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Who is Theseus?
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For what natural disaster is John preparing?
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How do the pilgrims decide what order to tell
the tales in?
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What story is based on Il Teseide?
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An episode of “Ren & Stimpy” could be
described as what genre of tale?
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Who is Philostrate?
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Who is Madame Eglentyne?
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Why does Arcite feel tormented in Thebes
after his release from prison?
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Some Chaucer critics argue that these
opening lines of the general prologue
imitated what work?
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Where is Hippolyta from originally?
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What Pilgrim was suppose to tell the
second tale?
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TWO POINT QUESTIONS
You must
now put
away
your
review
sheets.
TWO POINTS
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What term describes a literary work that
sets out to expose typical examples of
corruption at all levels of society
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What is a “heroic couplet”
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What is this?
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Where is the Poet’s Corner?
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What has King Creon forbidden the
noblewomen of Thebes to do?
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Why is it significant that The Canterbury
Tales was written in English?
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Name one anachronistic element of The
Knight’s Tale
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What does Mercury tell Arcite in a dream?
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Who is the speaker of this quotation
Now, masters, listen while I talk.
You know what you agreed at set of sun.
If even-song and morning-song are one,
Let's here decide who first shall tell a tale.
And as I hope to drink more wine and ale,
Whoso proves rebel to my government
Shall pay for all that by the way is spent.
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Who loves hunting and owns many horses,
but discourages his colleagues from
hunting. He is also fat, bald and welldressed.
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Which of these is a correct match up of character,
god, and what the character asked for
A. Emily asks Diana to die a Virgin
B. Palamon asks Venus to marry Emily
C. Arcite asks Mars to marry Emily
D. Both A and C
E. Both A and B
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Who is this person
that has taken a vow
of poverty and lives
entirely from
begging, but is verywell liked and very
well-dressed?
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What genre of tale is the Knight’s Tale?
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“He knew nat Caton, for his wit was rude/
That bad men sholde wedde his similitude;/
Men sholde wedde after hir estat, For youthe
and elde is often at debat.” (ll 119-122)
What is the significance of this quotation?
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What happens to Arcite at the end of The
Knight’s Tale
D.
He loses the tournament
He marries Hippolyta
He dies as a result of an earthquake
None of the above
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A.
B.
C.
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What are two similar elements between The
Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale?
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Where does Harry Bailley work?
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“By armes and by blood and bones,/ I can a
noble tale for the nones/ With which I wol
now quite the Knightes tale” (ll 17-19)
Who says this AND what does it mean to
“quite” the Knight’s Tale?
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Who is the speaker of this quote?
“And therfore, whoso list it nought yheere
Turne over the leef, and chese another tale,
For he shal finde ynowe, grete and smale
Of storial thing that touchest gentilesse,
and eek moralitee and holinesse:
Blameth nought me if that ye chese amis.” (ll 68-73)
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What is the significance of this quotation?
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