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2. Could make a mean blancmange, casserole, or soup. Had an ulcer on the knee

3. The Cook

4. Holy minded. Well- educated. Knew Bible & taught it well. Took care of parishioners & sick not collecting tithes or fees

5. The Parson

6. Estate Manager who was hated by those who worked for him. Rode last in the cavalcade.

7. The Reeve

8. Served as judge of the tales. Owned the Tabard Inn and established the chal- lenge for the group

9. The Host

10. Name the Ideal Characters, according to Chaucer

11. The Knight, Oxford Cleric, Parson, and Plowman

12. What organization competed with the King for power?

13. The Church of England

14. What was the reason people took a pilgrimage to Canterbury?

15. To pay homage to Archbishop on the cathedral steps where he was killed

16. What Bishop was killed by King Henry II’s Knights

17. Thomas a Becket

18. King William the Conqueror came in from what country?

19. France

20. When the Normans introduced their language into England, what types of words changed?

21. Fine Dining and Law

22. What do women most desire, according the old hag?

23. Dominion over their men

24. Who sentenced the Knight after he raped the maiden?

25. The Queen

26. What was the Knight’s punishment for his crime?

27. He had one year and a day to find out what women truly desire most.

28. How does the Knight’s and the old hag’s definitions of nobility differ?

29. He thinks it comes from heritage. She believes it comes from God.

30. In the story within the tale, what was the story of the wife who couldn’t keep a secret?

31. The woman’s husband, King Midas, had ass ears, and she had to tell someone, so she told the water and was overheard.

32. Had 5 husbands as well as many others before

33. The Wife of Bath

34. Student of the church who spends all money on books to study and teach more

35. Oxford Cleric

36. Went along on the pilgrimage to serve as the recorder of the tales as they are told

37. Geoffrey Chaucer

38. Carted dung all day long and always stopped to help another or pay his tithes

39. Plowman

40. Barbaric man of the sea who makes enemies walk the plank

41. Skipper

42. What talent does Chanticleer have?

43. Singing

44. Why had Chanticleer awakened in the middle of the night?

45. He had a bad dream

46. How did the fox outsmart Chanticleer?

47. He convinced him to sing out as loudly as he could to prove he sang better than his father

48. How did Chanticleer outsmart the fox?

49. He told the fox to turn around & tell the others to leave him to eat in peace. When he opened his mouth to talk, Chanticleer jumped out.

50. What is the moral of the story?

51. Listen to your dreams. Don’t close your eyes when they should be left open. Don’t listen to your wife.