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1. What is Chaucer's main reason for writing about the pilgrimage in the Prologue?

1. What is Chaucer's main reason for writing about the pilgrimage in the Prologue?
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to reveal the characters' beliefs about their religion
to create a setting for telling stories by different characters
to describe medieval life from different points of view
to create a colorful setting in which to reveal his characters
2. Use the strategy for analyzing difficult sentences to analyze the following lines from the Prologue. What was the purpose of the trip?

It happened in that season that one day / In Southwark, at The Tabard, as I lay / Ready to go on pilgrimage and start / For Canterbury, most devout at heart, / At night there came into that hostelry / Some nine and twenty in a company / Of sundry folk happening then to fall / In fellowship, and they were pilgrims all / That towards Canterbury meant to ride.
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to stay at the Tabard
to go on a pilgrimage
to meet twenty-nine people
to enjoy the spring season
3. Which of these quotations from the Prologue is an example of direct characterization?
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“The man who draws the shortest straw shall start.”
“Her greatest oath was only ‘By St. Loy!’”
“Children were afraid when he appeared.”
“He was an honest worker, good and true . . .”
4. Where are the pilgrims going in the Prologue?
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to the Tabard, a famous inn
to a church in London
to a village in Southwark
to the cathedral in Canterbury
5. What does the narrator mean in saying these lines from the Prologue?

But first I beg of you, in courtesy, / Not to condemn me as unmannerly / If I speak plainly and with no concealings / And give account of all their words and dealings.
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Please do not blame me if I tell you the truth about what they said and did.
Forgive me for making up details to make what they said more interesting.
I am embarrassed to admit it, but I don't always stick to the truth.
I apologize for leaving out things that they said and did that are rude.
6. What does the narrator mean in the Prologue when he says the following about the Friar?

But anywhere a profit might accrue / Courteous he was and lowly of service too.
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The Friar helps people make money by providing his services.
The Friar helps people by giving them his time and money.
The Friar helps people when he can make money doing it.
The Friar helps people by teaching them how to use money.
7. What can you infer from these words of the Pardoner in “The Pardoner's Tale”?

For my exclusive purpose is to win / And not at all to castigate their sin. / Once dead what matter how their souls may fare? / They can go blackberrying, for all I care!
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He wants his parishioners to seek forgiveness for their sins.
He wants his parishioners to work harder at farming for blackberries.
He wants his parishioners to think about what will happen when they die.
He wants his parishioners to give him plenty of their money.
8. What is the allegory that the Pardoner teaches in “The Pardoner's Tale”?
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People are not always what they seem.
Evil men will get what they deserve.
Greed is the root of all evil.
Even the best of friends cannot be trusted.
9. Which words best describe the three rioters in “The Pardoner's Tale”?
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friendly and fun-loving
greedy and rough
smart and dangerous
cautious and sneaky
10. What is one characteristic of an allegory that is found in “The Pardoner's Tale”?
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a story that occurs within the story
rhyming of every two lines
a tale that is told as a long prose poem
the use of characters to stand for ideas
11. In “The Pardoner's Tale,” what do the two rioters decide to do after they have sent their friend for food and wine?
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to take the money while he is gone
to carry away the money that night
to give some money to the old man
to kill their friend when he returns
12. Who is the old man in “The Pardoner's Tale”?
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Death
Hope
a thief and wanderer
a mean-spirited villager
13. According to “The Wife of Bath's Tale,” why was the knight condemned to die?
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He insulted the queen.
He was a coward.
He attacked a maiden.
He disobeyed the king's order.
14. What does the word reprove mean in these lines from “The Wife of Bath's Tale”?

Some say the things we most desire are these:
Freedom to do exactly as we please,
With no one to reprove our faults and lies,
Rather to have one call us good and wise.
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scold
congratulate
allow
encourage
15. According to “The Wife of Bath's Tale,” in the story of Midas, his wife tells her secret to the water. What is the point of this story?
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Women should not go near water.
Women cannot keep secrets to themselves.
Women enjoy telling secrets to others.
Women can be trusted to keep secrets.
16. According to “The Wife of Bath's Tale,” why does the knight agree to marry the old woman?
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He thinks the queen will not have him killed if he is marri