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During which month do the pilgrims set off on this pilgrimage to Canterbury?
April
How many pilgrims, excluding the narrator, are gathered at the beginning of "The Prologue"?
29 pilgrims
What is the name of the inn in which the pilgrims are gathered?
The Tabard Inn
Where is the inn, where the pilgrims are gathered located?
Southwark
Whose shrine are the pilgrims preparing to visit?
St. Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury
Who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral and in what year?
St. Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury and in the year 1170
Which upper-class pilgrim wore flowers, recited poetry, and stayed out all night chasing girls.
The Squire
Which pilgrim would rather be out in the world than in his cloister?
The monk
Which pilgrim sold phony religious relics to rural folk?
the Pardoner
Who volunteers to judge the story contest?
The host
What were the RIOTERS doing long before the morning bell?
drinking in a tavern
Where does the old man say he last saw Death?
under a tree
Translate the Latin "Radix malorum est cupiditas" into English. (The lesson of the Pardoner's Exemplum)
"Greed is the root of all evil."
When the youngest rioter draws the lot to fetch food and drink, he decides to also visit an ____.
Apothecary
What language did Chaucer write The Canterbury Tales?
Middle English
What is pilgrimage?
Visitation to a religious place or holy shrine
Medieval Social Theory was divided into how many categories and what were they?
There were three broad classes, called "estates": the military, the clergy, and the laity
Who wore the medal of the patron of travelers, St. Christopher?
Yeoman
Which pilgrim loved to hunt?
Monk
What is significant about the Nun trying to speak french with a Parisian accent?
She is trying to "counterfeit a courtly kind of grace", and is trying to be sophisticated.
He is also ridiculing her for trying too hard to be someone she is not
Which pilgrim knew the barmaids and the innkeepers better than the poor?
Friar
Which pilgrim rode a fine horse but wore plain clothing?
Knight
Which pilgrim accepts money from friends to buy books?
The Oxford Cleric
Which pilgrim despite being "so stately in negotiations, is actually in debt"?
The merchant
How many times was Wife of Bath married?
Five
Which red bearded pilgrim tells filthy tavern stories?
The Miller
Who is the Parson's brother?
Plowman
Which pilgrim would watch "his patients favourable star" to help determine his medicine and dosage?
Doctor
Which pilgrim trashed corn and paid his tithes when they were due?
Plowman
Which holy minded pilgrim always paid calls to the needy?
Parsons
When the old man in the Pardoner's Tale says he wants to meet his mother, what does he mean?
He wants to be buried
Who is known as the "Father of English Poetry"?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Who wears a pendant that says "Amor Vincit Omnia" and what does that mean?
"Love conquers all" and it is worn by the The Prioress otherwise known as the nun
Who was serviced a special license from the Pope to hear confessions?
Friar
Who fixed marriages for young women?
Friar
What was the Friar's two jobs?
Hearing confession and Begging
Who wore a Flemish beaver hat and had a forked beard?
The Merchant
Who said the famous quote, "If gold rusts, what will iron do"? What does this quote mean?
Said by the Parsons and it means if a religious figure can't live a holy life, how can he expect a layperson to do so
Who was hard working and a honest worker
The plowman
Who stole corn from customers, and charged three times the proper fee
The miller
Whose horse was thinner than a rake?
Oxford Cleric
Who was good at stealing grain?
The Miller
Who had "A thumb of gold"
The Miller
Each pilgrim will tell how many stories?
4 (2 on the way there and 2 on the way back)
Norman Invaders
Brought the French language to English
Middle English
Combo of Old English and Old French
Latin
used mostly for the Church, business, and school
French
Used by the nobility
A brave man who never acted boorishly
The Knight
Oxford Cleric
A young fellow who loved learning and reading more than anything else.
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