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