2. History CT Prologue Pardoner’s Tale Wife of Bath’s Tale Sir Gawain 10 20 30 40 50

3. Question 1 - 10 What date marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon period and beginning of the Medieval period?

4. Answer 1 – 10 1066

5. Question 1 - 20 Between 1346 and 1349, 1/3 of the English people died as a result of what?

6. Answer 1 – 20 The Black Death

7. Question 1 - 30 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?

8. Answer 1 – 30 Feudalism

9. Question 1 - 40 A system of inheritance whereby the first-born son would receive the land was known as what?

10. Answer 1 – 40 Primogeniture

11. Question 1 - 50 The basis for representative government in England was what document, signed in 1215?

12. Answer 1 – 50 Magna Carta

13. Question 2 - 10 How many total tales will each Pilgrim tell on the journey to Canterbury?

14. Answer 2 – 10 4

15. Question 2 - 20 What is the general structure of the Canterbury Tales which embeds many stories within one story?

16. Answer 2 – 20 Frame story

17. Question 2 - 30 What literary technique is used below? “And full of freshest flowers”

18. Answer 2 – 30 Alliteration

19. Question 2 - 40 What type of characterization does Chaucer use to describe the Pilgrims in a roundabout way, instead of being to the point?

20. Answer 2 – 40 Indirect characterization

21. Question 2 - 50 Which Pilgrim will help people by listening to their confessions only when he could make money by doing it?

22. Answer 2 – 50 The Friar

23. Question 3 - 10 What is the term for a short story with a moral or lesson?

24. Answer 3 – 10 Exemplum

25. Question 3 - 20 What is the allegory that the Pardoner teaches?

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

27. Question 3 - 30 What does the old man represent?

28. Answer 3 – 30 Death

29. Question 3 - 40 What does the youngest of the three rioters go in search of in town so he can have all the treasure for himself?

30. Answer 3 – 40 Poison

31. Question 3 - 50 What most likely killed the friend of the rioters?

32. Answer 3 – 50 Plague or black death

33. Question 4 - 10 During whose reign is the story set?

34. Answer 4 – 10 King Arthur

35. Question 4 - 20 How long does the knight have to figure out his answer for the Queen?

36. Answer 4 – 20 A year and a day

37. Question 4 - 30 What is it that women most desire?

38. Answer 4 – 30 Sovereignty over their husbands

39. Question 4 - 40 What happens to the women dancing in the forest when the knight gets closer?

40. Answer 4 – 40 They disappear

41. Question 4 - 50 What happened to the old woman after the knight let her make the decision?

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

43. Question 5 - 10 Who is Sir Gawain’s uncle?

44. Answer 5 – 10 King Arthur

45. Question 5 - 20 What motivates Sir Gawain to seek out the Green Knight a year and a day after their first meeting?

46. Answer 5 – 20 Honor

47. Question 5 - 30 Sir Gawain is a knight of the…?

48. Answer 5 – 30 Round Table

49. Question 5 - 40 What item does Sir Gawain accept from the Green Knight’s wife?

50. Answer 5 – 40 A sash or girdle

51. Question 5 - 50 How many times does the Green Knight slash at Sir Gawain’s neck?

52. Answer 5 – 50 3