pardoners prologue and the pardoners tale

what is the pardoners significant line?

radix malorum est cupiditas

what does that mean?

greed is evil

what does the pardoner confess?

that everything he says is a lie

what is avarice?

greed

what do you do if you want to be freed?

throw money on the floor

what does the pardoner listen to?

people's sins

what does the pardoner preach against?

how he makes his own money

what does bygone times?

old stories from the past

what does the pardoner relate his work to?

stealing from a baby

how many rioters are there?

three

where are they when the service bell goes off?

the bar

what did the bell represent?

a funeral procession was going on

what did the men question?

who had died

who tells the men who died?

the server

what does the server tell the men?

their friend had died

the man who had died was?

homeless and lonely

what was personified as a person?

death

what does the server tell the men?

to be careful, that if you meet death you will face the same consequences

because the men think that death is real what do they want to do?

destroy or kill death

were the men drunk when going out on this mission?

yes

when the men were on their journey what do they see?

a very poor old man

what do the men say to the old man?

they ask him why he hasn't died, and why he lived so long

what does the old man say is under the tree?

death

instead of finding death, what do the men find?

golden florins, eight bushels

when the men see the coins they forget about?

death

how do they determine who will go back into the city to get bread and wine?

they will draw straws, and the one that draws the longest will go to town

who picked the longest straw?

the youngest one

what did one of the men say to the other once the youngest one left?

you know you can trust me as a brother, and ill never betray you

what was their plan once the youngest one was gone?

they would kill him, and take his money... they would split it evenly between them two

how will they kill him?

they will literally stab him in the back with a dagger

the youngest one had a different agenda, what did he also want?

all the money to himself

what did the youngest one want to use to kill them?

poison

he went to the apothecary, and bought poison and told the man he needed to kill what?

rats

how many sips would it take to kill something?

one sip of the poison

the youngest one bought 3 wine bottles and filled how many with poison?

2

did the two men end up killing the youngest?

yes

after killing him, what did the two men enjoy?

the "wine" the youngest had brought

what ends happening to the last two men?

they die

what is the pardoners tale?

an allegory