The Canterbury Tales
a)
Alison
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS
b)
John
c)
Absolon
d)
Nicholas
1.
What is the first Canterbury Tale?
a)
The Reeve's Tale
b)
The Knight's Tale
7.
Who cries out "Water" because their arse
has been branded with a hot iron?
c)
The Miller's Tale
a)
Alison
d)
The Cook's Tale
b)
John
c)
Absolon
d)
Nicholas
2.
Which tale in the first fragment seems to be
unfinished?
a)
The Reeve's Tale
b)
The Miller's Tale
8.
What is the genre of tales to which the
Miller's Tale might belong?
c)
The Knight's Tale
a)
prose poem
d)
The Cook's Tale
b)
romance
c)
modernist narrative
d)
fabliaux
3.
Which tale tells the story of Symkyn the
miller?
a)
The Shipman's Tale
b)
The Reeve's Tale
c)
The Miller's Tale
d)
The Wife of Bath's Tale
4.
Which characters are in love with Alison in
the Miller's Tale?
9.
Which two characters are thought to be
indistinguishable from each other in the Knight's
Tale?
a)
Arcite and Palamon
b)
Arcite and Theseus
c)
Theseus and Hippolyta
a)
Gervase and Nicholas
d)
Theseus and Palamon
b)
Absolon and Nicholas
10.
Who dies at the end of the Knight's Tale?
c)
John, Absolon and Nicholas
a)
Arcite
d)
Absolon and Gervase
b)
Hippolyta
c)
Palamon
d)
Theseus
11.
Who are Arcite and Palamon in love with?
a)
Emelye
b)
Each other
c)
Absolon
d)
Theseus
5.
What is the name of the carpenter in the
Miller's Tale?
a)
Fred
b)
John
c)
Gervase
d)
Nicholas
6.
Who farts in Absolon's face?
12.
had?
How many husbands has the Wife of Bath
d)
a)
2
18.
In the General Prologue, which character is
swathed in ten pounds of cloth?
b)
3
a)
The Miller
c)
4
b)
The Wife of Bath
d)
5
c)
The Reeve
13.
The Wife of Bath's first name is...
d)
The Summoner
a)
Bertha
b)
Alison
k 19. Which two characters are sometimes read as
a homosexual couple?
c)
Absolon
d) She isn't given a first name, just "the Wife"
14.
The Wife of Bath's fifth husband is named...
a)
Jankin
b)
Absolon
c)
January
d)
Theseus
15.
The Wife of Bath suffers, a little, from
which ailment...
a)
blindness
b)
leprosy
c)
deafness
d)
muteness
16.
tool?
What does the Wife use as a bargaining
a)
Sex
b)
Food
c)
Sleep
d)
Money
17.
The Wife of Bath claims to hate...
a)
men
b)
eating
c)
clerks and glossing
cattle
a)
Chaucer and the Reeve
bk)
The Friar and the Summoner
c)
The Summoner and the Pardoner
d)
The Miller and the Reeve
20.
Chaucer is...
a)
a character in the pilgrimage, and the author
of the work as a whole
b)
an imaginary character in the pilgrimage
c)
not the writer of the Canterbury Tales
d)
not mentioned within the text of the Tales
21.
Which pilgrim throws a book into the fire?
a)
The Miller
b)
The Wife of Bath
c)
The Shipman
d)
The Reeve
22.
What does the Man of Law refuse to tell a
tale about?
a)
blackmail
b)
incest
c)
murder
d)k
Christians
23.
Who interrupts the Parson just before he is
to tell his tale?
a)
The Shipman
b)
The Reeve
(A)
Sovereignty over their husbands
c)
The Manciple
(B)
True love
d)
The Summoner
(C)
Perfect beauty
24.
The Cook's real name is
(D)
Great wealth
a)
Geoffrey Chaucer
5.
What does Chanticleer dream?
b)
Roger of Ware
(A)
That he will be killed by a wolf
c)
Roger Warren
(B)
That Pertelote will desert him
d)
Harry Bailly
25.
The Host's name is
(C)
That he will be taken away by an orange,
houndlike creature
a)
Geoffrey Chaucer
b)
Harry Bailey
c)
Roger of Ware
d)
Roger Warren
PART II
1.
Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury?
(A)
To meet King Henry III
(B)
To see a medieval mystery play
(C) To worship the relics of Saint Thomas
Becket
(D)
Because they are tourists
2.
What does the Squire wear?
(A)
A velvet doublet and hose
(B)
Cloth embroidered with flowers
(C)
Green and peacock- blue hunting gear
(D)
A beaver hat
3.
Who marries Emelye in the Knight’s Tale?
(A)
Theseus
(B)
Arcite
(C)
Saturn
(D)
Palamon
4.
According to the Wife of Bath, what do
women most desire?
(D)
That his friend will be murdered
6.
Who are the three men searching for in the
Pardoner’s Tale?
(A)
The Wandering Jew
(B)
Greed
(C)
Jesus Christ
(D)
Death
7.
Who is branded by a red-hot poker in the
Miller’s Tale?
(A)
Absolon
(B)
Alisoun
(C)
Nicholas
(D)
John
8.
Which of the following tales is a fabliau?
(A)
The Knight’s Tale
(B)
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
(C)
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
(D)
The Miller’s Tale
9.
Which pilgrim has a forked beard?
(A)
The Summoner
(B)
The Merchant
(C)
The Reeve
(D)
The Physician
10.
What is the moral of the Nun’s Priest’s
Tale?
(D) 50
16.
What is a romance?
(A)
An erotic tale of love and passion
(B)
A story about Romans
(C)
A story of knights, ladies, quests, and love
(D)
A cheap book you buy from a drugstore
(A)
Slow and easy wins the race.
(B)
Greed is the root of all evil.
(C)
Beauty lies within.
(D)
Never trust a flatterer.
11.
What is the Wife of Bath’s Prologue about?
(A)
Her life with her five different husbands
17.
Which tale qualifies as part of a medieval
sermon?
(B)
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(A)
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
(B)
The Tale of Melibee
(C)
The Physician’s Tale
(D)
The
(C)
How women deserve to hold high public
offices just like men
(D)
A philosophical treatise on the astrolabe
12.
When does The Canterbury Tales take
place?
Pardoner’s Tale
18.
Which pilgrims are most richly attired?
(A)
Miller, Yeoman, Summoner, Chaucer
(A)
In the Renaissance
(B)
In pre-Christian Britain
(C)
During the Norman invasion
(D)
In the late fourteenth century
13.
For which social classes did Chaucer write?
(A)
The nobility
(B)
All levels of society
(C)
Illiterate peasants
(A)
The Wife of Bath’s Tale and the Nun’s
Priest’s Tale
(D)
Merchants
(B)
The Prioress’s Tale and the Knight’s Tale
14.
What was Chaucer’s profession?
The Man of Law’s Tale and the Squire’s
(A)
Poet
(C)
Tale
(B)
Noble
(D)
The Miller’s Tale and the Clerk’s Tale
(C)
Merchant
(D)
Civil servant
15.
How many Canterbury Tales are there?
(A) 80
(B) 24
(C) 16
(B)
Wife of Bath, Squire, Monk, Physician,
Franklin
(C)
Knight, Nun’s Priest, Parson, Pardoner
(D)
Friar, Reeve, Manciple, Man of Law
19.
Which tales take place in the Orient?
20.
Which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed
with Latin words meaning “Love Conquers All”?
(A)
The Prioress
(B)
The Wife of Bath
(C)
The Monk
(D)
The Squire
21.
At what time of year does the pilgrimage
take place?
(C) The Pardoner has physically attacked the
Host with his heavy bag of relics.
(A)
In the dead of winter
(B)
In the height of spring
(D)
The Pardoner refuses to give the Host an
indulgence.
(C)
“That time of year when yellow leaves . . .
hang upon these boughs”
(D)
On a midsummer night
22.
Which characters are connected to the
Church?
(A)
The Prioress, the Monk, the Friar, the
Summoner, and the Pardoner
(B)
The Miller, the Ploughman, and the Reeve
(C)
The Knight, the Manciple, and the Host
(D)
The Canon’s Yeoman, the Physician, the
Clerk, and the Man of Law
1) Who introduced the heroic couplet into
English?
Ans: Chaucer (in the Legend of Good Women)
2)
Who wrote the Book of Duchess?
Ans: Chaucer
3)
Who is referred to as ‘fusion tunic’?
Ans: Knight
4)
Madame Eglantine also known as?
Ans: Prioress
5)
Father of English poetry is?
Ans: Chaucer
23.
Which tale is about a talking falcon?
(A)
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
6)
(B)
The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale
Ans: Friar
(C)
The Franklin’s Tale
7)
(D)
The Squire’s Tale
Ans: Franklin
24.
Which tales are about the patient suffering
of women?
(A)
Tale
The Wife of Bath’s Tale and the Prioress’s
(B)
The Knight’s Tale, the Cook’s Tale, and the
Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Whose name is Huberd?
Who is described as ‘Epicurus Son’?
8) During Chaucer’s period medicine was
connected with
Ans: Astronomy
9) Who called Chaucer as the father of English
Poetry?
Ans: Dryden
(C)
The Man of Law’s Tale, the Clerk’s Tale,
and the Physician’s Tale
10) How many Pilgrims are there in Canterbury
Tales?
(D)
The Tale of Melibee, the Parson’s Tale, and
the Friar’s Tale
Ans: 30 (including Chaucer)
25.
Why does the Pardoner upset the Host?
(A)
The Pardoner is homosexual.
(B)
The Pardoner tries to sell indulgences to the
pilgrims, after he has already told them that he
cheats people.
11) Which is the first in Canterbury Tales?
Ans: The Knight’s Tale
12) The Pilgrims went for a pilgrimage to
Canterbury in the month of
Ans: April
13) 29 Pilgrims came to Tabard Inn at
Ans: Early in the morning
Ans: Yeoman ????
14) How many battle were fought by knight?
28) Who was Parson’s brother?
Ans: 15
Ans: Plowman
15) What is the name of the nun?
29) Who always rode last in the group of pilgrims?
Ans: Madame Eglantine
Ans: Reeve (He is a Carpenter)
16) The Nun speaks _____ fluently
30) The pilgrims Stayed at
Ans: French
Ans: Tabard Inn
17) The young Squire who appears in the
Canterbury Tales is the son of _______
31) The host asked the pilgrims to tell ____ stories
when they go to Canterbury
Ans: The Knight
Ans: Two
18) The Yeoman attended on or served whom?
32) Who proposed that every pilgrim should tell
two stories?
Ans: The Knight
19) Who is fond of hunting?
Ans: The Monk
20) A sailor appears in the prologue to Canterbury
Tale. The sailor ship name was
Ans: The Host
33) Who opposed the proposal of the Host?
Ans: No one
34) The Pilgrims started their pilgrimage at
Ans: Maudelayne
Ans: Morning
21) Who was deaf among the following?
35) “Therefore he loved Gold in special”. The word
‘he’ refers to whom?
Ans: Wife of Bath
22) How many times Wife of bath married?
Ans: The Doctor
Ans: 5 times
36) Number of pilgrims including the narration or
in the prologue conterbury tales are
23) How many times Wife of bath went to
Jerusalem?
Ans: 30
Ans: 3 times
37) How many completed tales are there in the
Canterbury Tales?
24) Which are the tales in “Canterbury Tales” were
written in Prose?
Ans: 24
Ans: The Parson’s Tale and Melibus Tale
38) What type of Dialect Chaucer used in his
work?
25) What are the tales told by Chaucer?
Ans: The Tale of Sir Thopas and The Tale of
Melibee
26) Which is the longest tale?
Ans: Parson’s Tale
27) The Shortest tale is?
Ans: East Midland Dialect
39) Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury?
Ans: To worship the relics of Saint Thomas Becket
40) What does the Squire wear?
Ans: Cloth embroidered with flowers
41) Who marries Emelye in the Knight’s Tale?
Ans: A story of knights, ladies, quests, and love
Ans: Palamon
56) Which tale qualifies as part of a medieval
sermon?
42) According to the Wife of Bath, what do women
most desire?
Ans: The Pardoner’s Tale
Ans: Sovereignty over their husbands
57) Which pilgrims are most richly attired?
43) What does Chanticleer dream?
Ans: Wife of Bath, Squire, Monk, Physician,
Franklin
Ans: That he will be taken away by an orange,
houndlike creature
44) Who are the three men searching for in the
Pardoner’s Tale?
Ans: Death
45) Who is branded by a red-hot poker in the
Miller’s Tale?
58) Which tales take place in the Orient?
Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale and the Squire’s Tale
59) Which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with
Latin words meaning “Love Conquers All”?
Ans: The Prioress
Ans: Nicholas
60) At what time of year does the pilgrimage take
place?
46) Who gives the brand to the Nicholas?
Ans: In the height of spring
Ans: Absolon
61) Which characters are connected to the Church?
47) Which of the following tales is a fabliau?
Ans: The Prioress, the Monk, the Friar, the
Summoner, and the Pardoner
Ans: The Miller’s Tale
48) Which pilgrim has a forked beard?
Ans: The Merchant
62) Which tale is about a talking falcon?
Ans: The Squire’s Tale
49) What is the moral of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale?
63) Which tales are about the patient suffering of
women?
Ans: Never trust a flatterer.
Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale (Exile of Custance),
the Clerk’s Tale (Ordeal of Griselda), and the
Physician’s Tale (Mercy killing of Virginia)
50) What is the Wife of Bath’s Prologue about?
Ans: Her life with her five different husbands
51) When does The Canterbury Tales take place?
Ans: In the late fourteenth century
52) For which social classes did Chaucer write?
Ans: All levels of society
53) What was Chaucer’s profession?
Ans: Civil servant
64) Why does the Pardoner upset the Host?
Ans: The Pardoner tries to sell indulgences to the
pilgrims, after he has already told them that he
cheats people.
65) In which year Chaucer wrote Canterbury
Tales?
Ans: 1387 to 1400
54) How many Canterbury Tales are there?
66) Who did Arcite who won the fight with
Palamon die?
Ans: 24
Ans: He fell from the Horse Riding
55) What is a romance?
67) Who imprisoned Arcite and Palamon?
Ans: Theseus, the duke of Athens
77) Who is Mrs. Sweetbriar?
68) The characters John and Alayn appear in the
story of _______
Ans: Madame Eglantine
Ans: The Reeve’s Tale
78) The clerk of oxford had twenty books which
were written by ________
69) The Perkyn who drinks heavily and stays with
his friend’s house and his wife who is a prostitute
appears in the tale of _________
Ans: Aristotle
Ans: The Cook’s Tales
Ans: Dryden
70) Who had Ulcer on his face (shin)?
80) Who criticizes Canterbury Tales as Portrait
Gallary?
Ans: The Cook
79) Who says of Chaucer “Here is God’s Plenty”?
Ans: Dryden
71) The conversion of muslims to chrisitians takes
place in the story of _________
Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale.
72) What is the name of the mother of Sultan who
is killed by her Sultan in the tale of the man of
Law?
81) Who says of Chaucer, “He must have been a
man of most wonderful comprehensive soul?
Ans: Dryden
82) Who called Chaucer as the father of English
poetry?
Ans: Dryden
Ans: Hermengyld
73) What is the name of the mother of Alla, the
King of Northumberland who is killed by her son
Alla?
Ans: Donegild
74) Who is the son born to All and Custance?
83) Who called Chaucer as the father of our
splendid English Poetry?
Ans: Matthew Arnold
84) Who called Chaucer as a perpetual fountain of
good sense?
Ans: Matthew Arnold
Ans: Mauricius
75) How many lines the prologue of Canterbury
Tales has?
85) Who says of Chaucer, “He will be read far
more generally than he is read now”
Ans: Matthew Arnold
Ans: 858 lines
76) Which are the unfinished Tales of Canterbury
Tales?
86) Who said that Chaucer lacks high seriousness?
Ans: Matthew Arnold
Ans: The Cook’s Tale and Squire’s Tale
AZHAR UD DEEN BABAR (M.Phil. English Linguistics)