Question 1

1.  Why are all the pilgrims at the Tabbard Inn?

Accepted Answer

To ride together to Canterbury Cathedral

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To find out the truth about the host

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To ride together to Westminster Abbey

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To have dinner with old friends

Question 2

2.  What does the host propose?

Accepted Answer

A story telling contest with him as the judge

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That everyone spend the night at the Inn

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A drinking contest that he will judge

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That everyone leave as soon as possible.

Question 3

3.  Which character is described as having a faceful of sores and knowing everyone's secrets?

Accepted Answer

the summoner

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the friar

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the pardoner

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the nun

Question 4

4.  Which character is the epitome of a Christian?

Accepted Answer

The parson

Answer

the pardoner

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the summoner

Answer

the priest

Question 5

5.  Which character is chatty and talkative and has been married 5 times?

Accepted Answer

The wife of Bath

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the plowman

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the oxford cleric

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the pardoner

Question 6

6.  Which character is the brother of the parson and pays taxes on time?

Accepted Answer

the plowman

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the host

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the summoner

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the wife of bath

Question 7

7.  Which character is true and gentle and had been in many battles?

Accepted Answer

the knight

Answer

the summoner

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the oxford cleric

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the squire

Question 8

8.  Which character has a forked beard and is in debt?

Accepted Answer

the merchant

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the squire

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the plowman

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the host

Question 9

9.  Which character has yellow bulging eyes and sell fake relics to people?

Accepted Answer

the pardoner

Answer

the friar

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the plowman

Answer

the summoner

Question 10

10. Who is the youngest pilgrim that likes to spend time with the ladies?

Accepted Answer

the squire

Answer

the summoner

Answer

the knight

Answer

the pardoner

Question 11

11. Which character takes bribes for penance and frequents taverns?

Accepted Answer

the friar

Answer

the nun

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the priest

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the host

Question 12

12.  Which character hunts and has fine clothes?

Accepted Answer

the monk

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the pardoner

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the oxfor cleric

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the squire

Question 13

13.  Which character is great at his job but has a sore on his knee?

Accepted Answer

the cook

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the pardoner

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the summoner

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the monk

Question 14

14.  Which character speaks French and shows propriety?

Accepted Answer

the nun

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the plowman

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the merchant

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the wife of Bath

Question 15

15.  What are the pilgrims going to see?

Accepted Answer

Becket's shrine

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the statue at Mecca

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the mountain in Galilee

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the church in Jerusalem

Question 16

16.  The Pardoner practices what he preaches.

Accepted Answer

False

Answer

True

Question 17

17.  What is the theme of "The Pardoner's Tale"?

Accepted Answer

Greed is the root of all evil.

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Judge not, lest you be judged.

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God's love is limitless

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Eternal damnation awaits all who do not repent.

Question 18

18.  What oath do the three rioters swear?

Accepted Answer

To kill the killer before night fall

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To reform all of thier sinful ways.

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To drink until they pass out.

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To get out of town before they too are slain.

Question 19

19.  Who reportedly has slain a whole village?

Accepted Answer

Death

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Sin

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Sloth

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Greed

Question 20

20.  What do the three rioters find under a tree?

Accepted Answer

bushels of gold

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an elf

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a door to the underworld

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a dead, former companion

Question 21

21.  The three rioters have to move their findings at night because

Accepted Answer

that way no one will see them and steal it.

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they can then trade it for wine.

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they will be busy all day.

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they are too drunk to walk.

Question 22

22.  One of the rioters is sent to the store to get

Accepted Answer

food and drink

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a shovel

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a Bible

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a wheelbarrow

Question 23

23.  The rioter who goes to the store

Accepted Answer

poisons some wine.

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is killed by the original killer.

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forgets to pick up drinks.

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runs off and never returns.

Question 24

24.  Upon return from the store, the third rioter

Accepted Answer

is killed by the other two rioters.

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falls in a hole and dies.

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drinks poison wine.

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forgets where he left the other two rioters.

Question 25

25.  The two remaining rioters die

Accepted Answer

because they celebrate their new wealth with wine.

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after turning in their findings for cash.

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in prison.

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for their religion

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