Silent Write: How do the King Arthur legends reflect British society?
Explain your answer using textual evidence.
When you’re done, please have your study guide out, your copies of each
story, and/or your notes out.
Reminders (please make sure the following dates are in your planner):
•Chaucer and King Arthur test is tomorrow!
• Monday, December 7th- Compare and contrast paper assigned
•Thursday, December 17th- Paper due at the end of class
Learning Objective: I will be able to enhance my understanding of the King
Arthur legends and Chaucer’s, “The Pardoner’s Tale,” by answering textdependent questions to prepare for my test tomorrow.
Jeopardy
“Sir Gawain
and the Green
Knight”
“The Round
Table”
“Sir Launcelot”
“Death of
Arthur”
“The Pardoner’s
Tale”
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What does the king’s wife give to Sir Gawain on
the third day at the castle?
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A green sash
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Who does the Green Knight turn out to be?
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The King
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What happens with the first strike of the Green
Knight’s ax?
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Sir Gawain dodges the ax and it hits the ground.
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What is the deal that the king and Sir Gawain
make when Gawain arrives at the castle?
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Each day the king will go hunting and whatever
he wins in the hunt he will give to Gawain. In
return, Gawain must give anything he has won
that day to the lord.
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Arthur tells Guenevere how Merlin changed him
into different animals when he was younger.
Why did Merlin do this?
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Merlin wanted Arthur to learn something from
each animal.
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Why does Arthur want a round table?
So that all men will be equal.
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What is the new order of chivalry Arthur
establishes in “The Round Table”?
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What could King Arthur be a metaphor of?
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Hope
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What deal did Sir Launcelot make with the
young noblewoman? What does Launcelot need
to do?
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The noblewoman tells Launcelot that she would
release him if he agreed to “champion” her
father at a tournament.
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What happens to Sir Launcelot when he falls
asleep under the apple tree?
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Four queens approach the sleeping Launcelot,
then Morgan le Fay casts a spell over him to
keep him asleep. They take him captive to her
castle.
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Who is Morgan le Fay?
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Arthur’s evil half-sister. She is famous for
enchantments and continually plotting to destroy
Arthur and his followers.
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Morgan le Fay tells Launcelot he must make a
choice. What is the choice he has to make?
What is his response?
She tells him he must choose to take one of the
women as his wife, or to die miserably in his
cell.
 He says that he would rather die in his cell than
choose one of them.
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In “The Death of Arthur,” what does Arthur
dream about on Trinity Sunday?
 He has a vision that he was sitting in a chair, wearing
a cloth made of gold. He thought that there was deep
black water under him with serpents, worms, and wild
beasts. Then the seat turns upside-down and he fell
among the creatures. Then he is woken up.
 Then he had a vision that Sir Gawain came to him
with a group of women, then warned him that if he
fights against Mordred tomorrow, he will die, as well
as most of the people on both sides.
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How is the truce between Arthur and Mordred
disturbed? Explain this scene.
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A snake crawled out of a bush and bit a knight
on the foot. The knight then drew his sword and
killed the snake. When both parties saw the
sword drawn, they began their war cries and
saw this as the beginning of the battle.
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What does King Arthur ask Bedivere to do with
his sword, Excaliber?
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Arthur asks Bedivere to take his sword to the
water’s side and throw it into the water, then
come back and tell him what he sees.
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What happens when Bedivere throws King
Arthur’s sword into the water?
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An arm comes out of the water and grabs the
sword in its hand, then shakes it around three
times before disappearing with the sword into
the water.
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How does Chaucer use irony in “The Pardoner’s
Tale?” Provide one example.
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How does the Pardoner describe his own
character and morals in his prologue?
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He says that he is a greedy man and only
preaches for money. He would rather take the
last penny from a widow and her starving family
than give up his money.
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What was the rioters’ plan for the gold?
They weren’t able to take the gold into town during
the day, because people would think they stole it.
 The youngest goes to town to get wine for the men
to drink as they wait for night to come. The two men
who are left behind, decide to kill their friend when he
returns (so they can have a bigger share of the gold).
 The youngest comes up with a plan to put poison in
the wine to kill his two friends.
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What is the moral lesson within “The Pardoner’s
Tale”?