TESTS for DLP British Litt.

Chapters 1-5 Test 4/7

1. In the Pardoners Tale, three drunken men set out from a bar to find and
kill ______.
(a) Summoner (b) a fox (c) Death (d) Satan
2. Whose tale qualifies as a medieval sermon?
(a) Parson (b) Monk (c) Summoner (d) Pardoner
3. Who of the following tells tales set in the Orient?
(a) Sergeant of Law (b) Squire (c) Neither (d) Both
4. Who marries Emelye in the Knights Tale?
(a) Palamon (b) Arcite (c) Creon (d) Theseus
5. Whose tale involves a talking falcon who has been abandoned by her false
lover?
(a) Manciple (b) Squire (c) Wife of Bath (d) None of these
6. Who of the following does not tell the tale of a patient, suffering woman?
(a) Sergeant of Law (b) Clerk (c) Miller (d) Doctor of Physic
7. What does the Prioresss name Eglentyne mean?
(a) beautiful maiden (b) sweet briar (c) pearl (d) rosemary
8. What do women desire most, according to the Wife of Bath?
(a) beauty (b) love (c) reverence (d) sovereignty
9. What is the source of the Wife of Baths tale?
(a) Roman de la Rose (b) Decameron (b) The Bible (d) Ovids
Metamorphoses
10.Who is described as An outrider, who loved his venery?
(a) Yeoman (b) Franklin (c) Monk (d) Miller
11.Which philosopher is cited at the end of the General Prologue in support of
the argument that it is best to speak plainly and tell the truth rather than
to lie?
(a) Plato (b) Aristotle (c) St. Augustine (d) St. Thomas Aquinas
12.Which pilgrim was clad in red and blue lined with taffeta and with thin silk?
(a) Monk (b) Doctor of Physic (c) Shipman (d) Merchant
13.How many mortal battles had the knight fought?
(a) fifteen (b) twenty-five (c) twenty-two (d) fifty
14.Which character looked like a fish out of water as he sat on his horse?
(a) The Monk (b) The Cook (c) The Shipman (d) The Sergeant of Law
15.How many tales were originally planned in The Canterbury Tales?
(a) 90 (b) 120 (c) 150 (d) 200
16.Which pilgrims tale is based on Boccaccios courtly romance Teseida?
(a) The Knight (b) The Squire (c) The Prioress (d) The Wife of Bath

17.Which object does the Pardoner claim is Virgin Marys veil?

(a) a kerchief (b) towel (c) a bedsheet (d) a pillowcase
18.What is the name of the rooster, who is the protagonist in the Nuns
Priests Tale?
(a) Reynard (b) Nicholas (c) Chanticleer (d) Isengrim
19.Which pilgrim came from Dartmouth?
(a) The Reeve (b) The Shipman (c) The Manciple (d) The Merchant
20.Which of the following pilgrims did not tell a fabliau?
(a) Miller (b) Cook (c) Summoner (d) all of these
21.Which character pays his tithes ful faire and well and lives in pees and
perfect charitee?
(a) The Plowman (b) The Franklin (c) The Parson (d) The Reeve
22.Who is the charlatan who passes off pigs bones as saints relics?
(a) The Summoner (b) The Pardoner (c) The Friar (d) The Monk
23.Which character believes that the caricature of the carpenter in the
Millers Tale is aimed at him and counters with his own story that mocks
the arrogance of the Miller?
(a) The Franklin (b) The Yeoman (c) The Reeve (d) The Manciple
24.Which pilgrim tells the story of a knight named Arveragus, his wife
Dorigen, and her suitor Aurelius, who is asked by Dorigen to remove the
rocks of Brittany coast?
(a) The Summoner (b) The Sailor (c) The Sergeant of Law (d) The
Franklin
25.Which pilgrim tells the story of the maiden Virginia who is killed by her
father to prevent the judge Apius from ravishing her?
(a) The Merchant (b) The Physician (c) The Miller (d) The Manciple