Canterbury Tales Review

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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Prologue

Whom do the Pilgrims agree to set Up as the judge of the friendly Competition?

$100 Answer from Prologue

The Host

$200 Question from Prologue

In the early lines of the Prologue howMany pilgrims does ChaucerSay meet at the inn and plan to go on The pilgrimage before the host andChaucer decide to join them?

$200 Answer from Prologue

9 and 20 OR 29

$300 Question from Prologue

Why were the pilgrims going toCanterbury?

$300 Answer from Prologue

To visit Thomas Becket’s shrine

$400 Question from Prologue

What does the Host say the personWho tells the best story win?

$400 Answer from Prologue

A banquet or feast in their honor

$500 Question from Prologue

What are the details of the competitionThat the host proposes?

$500 Answer from Prologue

Each pilgrim will tell two storiesOn the way to Canterbury and twoStories on the return journey

$100 Question from the Nun’s Priest’s Tale

Which character trait almost leadsTo Chanticleer’s downfall?

$100 Answer from Nun’s Priest’s Tales

Tendency to boast OR boastful pride

$200 Question from Nun’s Priest’s Tale

How does the fox trick ChanticleerInto lowering his guard?

$200 Answer from Nun’s Priest’s Tale

He compliments Chanticleer’s singingAnd persuades him to sing.

$300 Question from Nun’s Priest’s Tale

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

$300 Answer from Nun’s Priest’s Tale

Beware of flattery

$400 Question from Nun’s Priest’s Tale

In what way do Chanticleer and Pertilote follow the rules of courtlyLove?

$400 Answer from Nun’s Priest’s Tale

They refrain from touching

$500 Question from Nun’s Priest’s Tale

The narrator of the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” portrays himself as a man who…

$500 Answer from Nun’s Priest’s Tale

Dislikes and mistrusts women

$100 Question from Pardoner’s

The moral of the Pardoner’s Tale is…(besides “if you go looking for death,You will find it”)

$100 Answer from Pardoner’s

Greed is the root of all evil

$200 Question from Pardoner’s

What do the two of the rioters decideTo do to the third rioter upon his returnTo increase their share of the gold?

$200 Answer from Pardoner’s

Stab the other rioter upon his return

$300 Question from Pardoner’s

In the “Pardoner’s Tale” the threeRioters are sure that they can destroyDeath, and yet they fail to see that theyAre falling into his trap. This is an Example of ________.

$300 Answer from Pardoner’s

Irony

$400 Question from Pardoner’s

The “Pardoner’s Tale” is an example Of what type of short anecdotal story meant to illustrate a point?

$400 Answer from Pardoner’s

Exemplum

$500 Question from Pardoner’s

What basic storytelling elementsAre found in the “Pardoner’s Tale”That are found in folk literatureAround the world?

$500 Answer from Pardoner’s

Archetypal narrative elements

$100 Question from Lit Terms

A brief tale usually involving animalsThat is told to point out a moral truth

$100 Answer from Lit Terms

Fable

$200 Question from Lit Terms

A humorous imitation of anotherPiece or of a type of writing

$200 Answer from Lit Terms

Parody

$300 Question from Lit Terms

Information about a character thatYou must infer by their actions ordress

$300 Answer from Lit Terms

Indirect characterization

$400 Question from Lit Terms

The style of writing where languageOf an epic is parodied applying it toTrivial terms

$400 Answer from Lit Terms

Mock-heroic style

$500 Question from Lit Terms

Writing that offers insight into Society, its values, and its customs.The Canterbury Tales is an example.

$500 Answer from Lit Terms

Social commentary

$100 Question from Characterization: Direct or

Indirect

“… he was not gaily dressed.”

$100 Answer from Characterization: D or I?

Indirect

$200 Question from Characterization: D or I?

“There was a knight, a most Distinguished man.”

$200 Answer from Characterization: D or I?

Direct

$300 Question from Characterization: D or I?

“He was not too fat”

$300 Answer from Characterization: D or I?

Direct

$400 Question from Characterization: D or I?

“He could make songs and poems And recite.”

$400 Answer from Characterization: D or I?

Indirect

$500 Question from Characterization: D or I?

“A medal of St. Christopher he wore.”

$500 Answer from Characterization: D or I?

Indirect

Final JeopardyWhich word best describes Pertelote’s attitude towardChanticleer in “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” when she tellsChanticleer when he is afraid, “How dare you say for shame, and to your Love./ That anything at all was to be feared? / Have you No manly heart to match your beard?” (lines 98-100)a.Vainb.Playfulc.Derisived.thoughtless

Final Jeopardy Answer

C. Derisive- which also means scornful