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    This document provides information about Geoffrey Chaucer and his famous work The Canterbury Tales. It identifies Chaucer as the "Father of English poetry" who introduced the heroic couplet into English literature. It also summarizes some of the key pilgrims that are featured in The Canterbury Tales, such as the Knight, the Prioress, and the Wife of Bath. Additionally, it addresses the time period and social classes that Chaucer wrote for, as well as some of the tales and characters within the collection.

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    This document provides information about Geoffrey Chaucer and his famous work The Canterbury Tales. It identifies Chaucer as the "Father of English poetry" who introduced the heroic couplet into English literature. It also summarizes some of the key pilgrims that are featured in The Canterbury Tales, such as the Knight, the Prioress, and the Wife of Bath. Additionally, it addresses the time period and social classes that Chaucer wrote for, as well as some of the tales and characters within the collection.

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    Age of Chaucer

    1) Who introduced the heroic couplet into English?

    Ans: Chaucer (in the Legend of Good Women)

    2) Who wrote the Book of Duchess?

    Ans: Chaucer

    3) Who is referred to as ‘fusion tunic’?

    Ans: Knight

    4) Madame Eglantine also known as?

    Ans: Prioress

    5) Father of English poetry is?

    Ans: Chaucer

    6) Whose name is Huberd?

    Ans: Friar

    7) Who is described as ‘Epicurus Son’?

    Ans: Franklin

    8) During Chaucer’s period medicine was connected with

    Ans: Astronomy

    9) Who called Chaucer as the father of English Poetry?

    Ans: Dryden

    10) How many Pilgrims are there in Canterbury Tales?

    Ans: 30 (including Chaucer)

    11) Which is the first in Canterbury Tales?

    Ans: The Knight’s Tale

    12) The Pilgrims went for a pilgrimage to Canterbury in the month of

    Ans: April

    13) 29 Pilgrims came to Tabard Inn at

    Ans: Early in the morning

    14) How many battle were fought by knight?

    Ans: 10

    15) What is the name of the nun?

    Ans: Madame Eglantine


    16) The Nun speaks _____ fluently

    Ans: French

    17) The young Squire who appears in the Canterbury Tales is the son of _______

    Ans: The Knight

    18) The Yeoman attended on or served whom?

    Ans: The Knight

    19) Who is fond of hunting?

    Ans: The Monk

    20) A sailor appears in the prologue to Canterbury Tale. The sailor ship name was

    Ans: Maudelayne

    21) Who was deaf among the following?

    Ans: Wife of Bath

    22) How many times Wife of bath married?

    Ans: 5 times

    23) How many times Wife of bath went to Jerusalem?

    Ans: 3 times

    24) Which are the tales in “Canterbury Tales” were written in Prose?

    Ans: The Parson’s Tale and Melibus Tale

    25) What are the tales told by Chaucer?

    Ans: The Tale of Sir Thopas and The Tale of Melibee

    26) Which is the longest tale?

    Ans: Parson’s Tale

    27) The Shortest tale is?

    Ans: Yeoman ????

    28) Who was Parson’s brother?

    Ans: Plowman

    29) Who always rode last in the group of pilgrims?

    Ans: Reeve (He is a Carpenter)

    30) The pilgrims Stayed at

    Ans: Tabard Inn


    31) The host asked the pilgrims to tell ____ stories when they go to Canterbury

    Ans: Two

    32) Who proposed that every pilgrim should tell two stories?

    Ans: The Host

    33) Who opposed the proposal of the Host?

    Ans: No one

    34) The Pilgrims started their pilgrimage at

    Ans: Morning

    35) “Therefore he loved Gold in special”. The word ‘he’ refers to whom?

    Ans: The Doctor

    36) Number of pilgrims including the narration or in the prologue conterbury tales are

    Ans: 30

    37) How many completed tales are there in the Canterbury Tales?

    Ans: 24

    38) What type of Dialect Chaucer used in his work?

    Ans: East Midland Dialect

    39) Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury?

    Ans: To worship the relics of Saint Thomas Becket

    40) What does the Squire wear?

    Ans: Cloth embroidered with flowers

    41) Who marries Emelye in the Knight’s Tale?

    Ans: Palamon

    42) According to the Wife of Bath, what do women most desire?

    Ans: Sovereignty over their husbands

    43) What does Chanticleer dream?

    Ans: That he will be taken away by an orange, houndlike creature

    44) Who are the three men searching for in the Pardoner’s Tale?

    Ans: Death

    45) Who is branded by a red-hot poker in the Miller’s Tale?

    Ans: Nicholas
    46) Who gives the brand to the Nicholas?

    Ans: Absolon

    47) Which of the following tales is a fabliau?

    Ans: The Miller’s Tale

    48) Which pilgrim has a forked beard?

    Ans: The Merchant

    49) What is the moral of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale?

    Ans: Never trust a flatterer.

    50) What is the Wife of Bath’s Prologue about?

    Ans: Her life with her five different husbands

    51) When does The Canterbury Tales take place?

    Ans: In the late fourteenth century

    52) For which social classes did Chaucer write?

    Ans: All levels of society

    53) What was Chaucer’s profession?

    Ans: Civil servant

    54) How many Canterbury Tales are there?

    Ans: 24

    55) What is a romance?

    Ans: A story of knights, ladies, quests, and love

    56) Which tale qualifies as part of a medieval sermon?

    Ans: The Pardoner’s Tale

    57) Which pilgrims are most richly attired?

    Ans: Wife of Bath, Squire, Monk, Physician, Franklin

    58) Which tales take place in the Orient?

    Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale and the Squire’s Tale

    59) Which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning “Love Conquers All”?

    Ans: The Prioress

    60) At what time of year does the pilgrimage take place?

    Ans: In the height of spring

    61) Which characters are connected to the Church?


    Ans: The Prioress, the Monk, the Friar, the Summoner, and the Pardoner

    62) Which tale is about a talking falcon?

    Ans: The Squire’s Tale

    63) Which tales are about the patient suffering of women?

    Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale (Exile of Custance), the Clerk’s Tale (Ordeal of Griselda), and the
    Physician’s Tale (Mercy killing of Virginia)

    64) Why does the Pardoner upset the Host?

    Ans: The Pardoner tries to sell indulgences to the pilgrims, after he has already told them that he
    cheats people.

    65) In which year Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales?

    Ans: 1387 to 1400

    66) Who did Arcite who won the fight with Palamon die?

    Ans: He fell from the Horse Riding

    67) Who imprisoned Arcite and Palamon?

    Ans: Theseus, the duke of Athens

    68) The characters John and Alayn appear in the story of _______

    Ans: The Reeve’s Tale

    69) The Perkyn who drinks heavily and stays with his friend’s house and his wife who is a
    prostitute appears in the tale of _________

    Ans: The Cook’s Tales

    70) Who had Ulcer on his face?

    Ans: The Cook

    71) The conversion of muslims to chrisitians takes place in the story of _________

    Ans: The Man of Law’s Tale.

    72) What is the name of the mother of Sultan who is killed by her Sultan in the tale of the man
    of Law?

    Ans: Hermengyld

    73) What is the name of the mother of Alla, the King of Northumberland who is killed by her
    son Alla?

    Ans: Donegild

    74) Who is the son born to All and Custance?

    Ans: Mauricius

    75) How many lines the prologue of Canterbury Tales has?


    Ans: 858 lines

    76) Which are the unfinished Tales of Canterbury Tales?

    Ans: The Cook’s Tale and Squire’s Tale

    77) Who is Mrs. Sweetbriar?

    Ans: Madame Eglantine

    78) The clerk of oxford had twenty books which were written by ________

    Ans: Aristotle

    79) Who says of Chaucer “Here is God’s Plenty”?

    Ans: Dryden

    80) Who criticizes Canterbury Tales as Portrait Gallary?

    Ans: Dryden

    81) Who says of Chaucer, “He must have been a man of most wonderful comprehensive soul?

    Ans: Dryden

    82) Who called Chaucer as the father of English poetry?

    Ans: Dryden

    83) Who called Chaucer as the father of our splendid English Poetry?

    Ans: Matthew Arnold

    84) Who called Chaucer as a perpetual fountain of good sense?

    Ans: Matthew Arnold

    85) Who says of Chaucer, “He will be read far more generally than he is read now”

    Ans: Matthew Arnold

    86) Who said that Chaucer lacks high seriousness?

    Ans: Matthew Arnold

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