The Decameron and Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Who wrote the Nuns Priest’s Tale?
Giovanni Boccaccio
Who wrote Patient Griselda?
Goeffrey Chaucer
Who wrote the Reeve’s Tale?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Who wrote the Knight’s Tale?
Giovanni Boccaccio
Who wrote the Tale of the Eaten Heart?
Giovanni Boccaccio
Who wrote the Abbess?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Who wrote the Wife of Bath’s Tale?
Goeffrey Chaucer
Who wrote The Miller’s Tale?
Giovanni Boccaccio
Who wrote Ser Clappelletto?
The Reeve
Who is the narrator that tells his tale to back at the Miller and used to a Carpenter?
John
Who was a clerk looking to get revenge on the Miller for stealing wheat and flour and was Alain’s friend?
Alain
Who was John’s friend that wanted to get revenge on the Miller?
The Miller (Simkin)
Who steals wheat and flour from the clerks?
Maudy
Who was the Miller’s daughter that slept with Alain?
Cheating people
What is the Miller known for?
He lets their horse loose so he can steal the grain
How does the Miller trick the clerks?
The baby cradle gets moved around
Why did the Miller end up in the wrong bed?
Alain sleeps with the Miller’s daughter and John sleeps with the Miller’s wife
What happens when the Miller is in the wrong bed?
Palamon
Who is the knight, cousin of Arcite, and in love with Emily in the Knight’s Tale?
Arcite (Arcita)
Who is a knight, cousin of Palamon, and in love with Emily?
Theseus
Who is the king of Athens, imprisons Arcite and Palamon, and Emily’s brother-in-law?
Emily
Who is the sister-in-law of Theseus and is loved by Arcite and Palamon?
Perithous
Who sets Arcite free and was a childhood friend of Theseus and Arcite?
Emetreus
Who was the king of Ind that helps Arcite?
Licurgus (Ligurge)
Who is the king of Thrace that helps Palamon?
The cousins Arcite and Palamon alive
What did the Athenian soldiers find while looting corpses?
He is banished from Athens forever
What happens when Arcite is release from prison?
God of Mercury
Who told Arcite to return to Athens?
Thee squire Philostrate
What did Arcite disguise himself as when he returned to Athens?
He drugged his guard
How did Palamon escape prison?
Palamon like a lion and Arcite like a tiger
What animals do Palamon and Arcite fight like?
Theseus
Who interrupts the fight and threatens to kill them both?
Theseus’s wife and sister-in-law
Who convinces Theseus not to kill them?
50
How many weeks do they get to gather 100 knights to fight in a grand tournament to marry Emily?
Venus (Aphrodite)
Whose temple was in the east gate?
Mars (Ares)
Whose temple was in the west gate?
Diana (Artemis)
Whose temple was in the north gate?
Venus who promises victory in love
Who does Palamon pray to?
Mars who promises victory in battle
Who does Arcite pray to?
Diana to maintain her virginity but her prayer was rejected
Who does Emily pray to?
Arcite
Who wins the contest?
Hades (encouraged by Venus)
Who sends a flame that spooks Arcite’s horse and is thrown from the saddle, crushing his chest?
Yes
Did Arcite forgive Palamon?
Palamon
Who married Emily?
Roussillon’s wife
Who was Cabestaing attracted to in the Tale of the Eaten Heart?
Told Cabestaing they would meet for tournament in France
When Roussillon discovered his wife’s affair what did he do?
Stabbed him in the chest and cut out his heart
What did Roussillon do to Cabestaing?
Cabestaing’s heart (she thought it was a boar’s heart)
What did Roussillon feed his wife?
He jumped out of the window and died
What did Roussillon’s wife do when she found out she was eating her lovers’ heart?
Ran off to the countryside
What did Roussillon do after his wife killed herself?
Chickens
What animals live on a farm with a poor widow and her two daughters in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale?
Chanticleer
Who was the handsome young rooster that feared the meaning of his dream?
Pertelote
Who is Chanticleers favorite hen that rebukes him for fearing his dream?
The Cunning fox
Who wishes to tick and eat Chanticleer?
7
How many hens lived on the farm?
Eating too much food the night before
What does Chanticleer pass off his dream as?
Sing
What does the fox ask Chanticleer to do?
Brag about his catch
What does Chanticleer convince the fox to do so he could escape?
Trickery
What does the fox represent?
Femme Fatel
What archetypes are present in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale?
Trusting women
What is Chanticleer’s fatal flaw?
The perfect woman
What does the tale Patient Griselda describe?
Gualtieri
Who is the Marquis of Saluzzo?
Griselda
Who is the wife of Gualtieri?
Dioneo
Who is the storyteller for Patient Griselda?
Giannucolo
Who is Griselda’s father?
Daughter 12 and Son 6
How old is are Gualtierii and Griselda’s children?
Strip
What does Gualtieri make Griselda do before taking her to his estate?
To test his wife’s loyalty
Why did Gualtieri send his daughter away?
Nobels
Who is raising Gualteri and Griselda’s children?
Gualtieri wants to divorce her and marry a 12 year old
What is Griselda’s final test?
His daughter
Who was the 12-year-old Giialtieri married?
Abbess
What is woman who is the superior of a convent of nuns called?
Gallant
What is a young man of fashion?
A veil nuns wear
What is a Pslater?
Gallant
Who is the secret lover of Isabetta?
The Abbess
Who is secretly sleeping with the priest?
The two nuns
Who discovers Isabetta has been sneaking around with a young gallant?
The Priest
Who is the Abbess with when the nuns visit her?
The priest’s pants
What does the Abbess mistakenly put on her head?
The affairs are better kept in secret
What was decided in the end?
Elissa
Who is the teller of the Abbess?
5
How many times was the Wife of Bath married?
King-Arthur’s court and Arthurian romance
Where is the tale set and what is the genre?
Rapes her
What does the knight do the maiden?
Execute him but the queen and her ladies persuade him not to
What does the king want to do to the knight and who persuades him not to?
What do women most desire?
What question must the knight answer?
The old hag tells him sovereignty
What is the answer to the knight’s question and who gives it to him?
12 months and 1 day
How long did the knight have to answer the question?
The knight to marry her
What favor does the old woman want?
He lets her choose
When the old woman asks the knight is he would rather her be old and loyal or young and possibly unfaithful what does he answer?
She becomes young, beautiful, and loyal
What happens when the knight lets the old woman decide?
The maidens
Who does the knight ask questions to on his quest?
Alison
Who is the narrator of the Wife of Bath’s Tale?
Allison
Who is the young, attractive, flirtatious, married to john, has an affair with Nicholas, and tricks Absolon in the Miller’s Tale?
John
Who is the carpenter that is married to Allison and very gullible?
Nicholas
Who is the astrology student living in John’s house that is manipulative and creates a fake flood plan to sleep with Allison?
Absolon
Who is the perish clerk that is in love with Allison and ends up being humiliated?
That Nicholas is ill
For Nicholas’ plan what does Allison tell John?
There is going to be another great flood
What is Nicholas’ vision from God?