History CT Prologue Pardoner’s Tale Wife of Bath’s Tale Sir Gawain

Question What date marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon period and beginning of the Medieval period?

Answer 1 –

Question Between 1346 and 1349, 1/3 of the English people died as a result of what?

Answer 1 – 20 The Black Death

Question A complicated system of land control under which land is held and managed by Lords to provide for the King’s needs is called what?

Answer 1 – 30 Feudalism

Question A system of inheritance whereby the first-born son would receive the land was known as what?

Answer 1 – 40 Primogeniture

Question The basis for representative government in England was what document, signed in 1215?

Answer 1 – 50 Magna Carta

Question How many total tales will each Pilgrim tell on the journey to Canterbury?

Answer 2 – 10 4

Question What is the general structure of the Canterbury Tales which embeds many stories within one story?

Answer 2 – 20 Frame story

Question What literary technique is used below? “And full of freshest flowers”

Answer 2 – 30 Alliteration

Question What type of characterization does Chaucer use to describe the Pilgrims in a roundabout way, instead of being to the point?

Answer 2 – 40 Indirect characterization

Question Which Pilgrim will help people by listening to their confessions only when he could make money by doing it?

Answer 2 – 50 The Friar

Question What is the term for a short story with a moral or lesson?

Answer 3 – 10 Exemplum

Question What is the allegory that the Pardoner teaches?

Answer 3 – 20 Love of money is the root of all evil.

Question What does the old man represent?

Answer 3 – 30 Death

Question What does the youngest of the three rioters go in search of in town so he can have all the treasure for himself?

Answer 3 – 40 Poison

Question What most likely killed the friend of the rioters?

Answer 3 – 50 Plague or black death

Question During whose reign is the story set?

Answer 4 – 10 King Arthur

Question How long does the knight have to figure out his answer for the Queen?

Answer 4 – 20 A year and a day

Question What is it that women most desire?

Answer 4 – 30 Sovereignty over their husbands

Question What happens to the women dancing in the forest when the knight gets closer?

Answer 4 – 40 They disappear

Question What happened to the old woman after the knight let her make the decision?

Answer 4 – 50 She became young and beautiful and will also be a devoted wife.

Question Who is Sir Gawain’s uncle?

Answer 5 – 10 King Arthur

Question What motivates Sir Gawain to seek out the Green Knight a year and a day after their first meeting?

Answer 5 – 20 Honor

Question Sir Gawain is a knight of the…?

Answer 5 – 30 Round Table

Question What item does Sir Gawain accept from the Green Knight’s wife?

Answer 5 – 40 A sash or girdle

Question How many times does the Green Knight slash at Sir Gawain’s neck?

Answer 5 – 50 3