The Canterbury TalesComprehensive review

The Rules Each team will receive one dry erase board No team member may leave their seat at any point without

explicit permission. Each team will have access to their review sheets for the first

set of questions. Each of these questions will be worth one point. Subsequent questions will be worth two points

Each team will be allowed 10 seconds (20 seconds if it is worth 2 points) to write their final answer on the dry erase board. Only the answer written will be accepted.

Each team should, to the best of their availability, come up with their answer using only their teammates and their review sheets. If, however, a team overhears a response from another team, I consider that the fault of the loud team member

ONE POINT Who is Catherine of Swynford’s

husband?

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ONE POINT What is a Yeoman?

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ONE POINTWho is described in this passage?A _________________________ was with us in that place,Who had a fiery-red, cherubic face,For eczema he had; his eyes were narrowAs hot he was, and lecherous, as a sparrow;With black and scabby brows and scanty beard;He had a face that little children feared.There was no mercury, sulphur, or litharge,No borax, ceruse, tartar, could discharge,Nor ointment that could cleanse enough, or bite,To free him of his boils and pimples white,Nor of the bosses resting on his cheeks.

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ONE POINT What do Nicholas and Absalom

have in common

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ONE POINT If the character of

Death appears in an episode of “The Family Guy”, what genre of tale could we say that episode is?

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ONE POINT Name at least three characters

from the Prologue who are a member of the clergy?

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ONE POINT What literary work is based on

Boccaccio’s Decameron?

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ONE POINT Who is this?

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ONE POINT Who is St. Thomas A Becket?

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ONE POINT Who is Theseus?

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ONE POINT For what natural disaster is John

preparing?

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ONE POINT How do the pilgrims decide what

order to tell the tales in?

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ONE POINT What story is based on Il

Teseide?

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ONE POINT An episode of “Ren & Stimpy”

could be described as what genre of tale?

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ONE POINT Who is Philostrate?

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ONE POINT Who is Madame Eglentyne?

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ONE POINT Why does Arcite feel tormented

in Thebes after his release from prison?

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ONE POINT Some Chaucer critics argue

that these opening lines of the general prologue imitated what work?

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ONE POINT Where is Hippolyta from

originally?

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ONE POINT What Pilgrim was suppose to

tell the second tale?

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WE ARE NOW ENTERING THE TWO POINT QUESTIONS

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TWO POINTS What term describes a literary

work that sets out to expose typical examples of corruption at all levels of society

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TWO POINTS What is a “heroic couplet”

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TWO POINTS What is this?

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TWO POINTS Where is the Poet’s Corner?

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TWO POINTS What has King Creon forbidden

the noblewomen of Thebes to do?

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TWO POINTS Why is it significant that The

Canterbury Tales was written in English?

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TWO POINTS Name one anachronistic element

of The Knight’s Tale

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TWO POINTS What does Mercury tell Arcite in

a dream?

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TWO POINTSWho is the speaker of this

quotationNow, masters, listen while I talk.You know what you agreed at set of sun.If even-song and morning-song are one,Let's here decide who first shall tell a tale.And as I hope to drink more wine and ale,Whoso proves rebel to my government

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TWO POINTSWho loves hunting and owns many

horses, but discourages his colleagues from hunting. He is also fat, bald and well-dressed.

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TWO POINTS Which of these is a correct match up

of character, god, and what the character asked for

A. Emily asks Diana to die a VirginB. Palamon asks Venus to marry EmilyC. Arcite asks Mars to marry EmilyD. Both A and CE. Both A and B

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TWO POINTS Who is this person

that has taken a vow of poverty and lives entirely from begging, but is very-well liked and very well-dressed?

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TWO POINTS What genre of tale is the

Knight’s Tale?

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TWO POINTS “He knew nat Caton, for his wit was

rude/ That bad men sholde wedde his similitude;/ Men sholde wedde after hir estat, For youthe and elde is often at debat.” (ll 119-122)

What is the significance of this quotation?

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TWO POINTS What happens to Arcite at the

end of The Knight’s TaleA. He loses the tournamentB. He marries HippolytaC. He dies as a result of an earthquakeD. None of the above

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TWO POINTS What are two similar elements

between The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale?

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TWO POINTS Where does Harry Bailley work?

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TWO POINTS “By armes and by blood and

bones,/ I can a noble tale for the nones/ With which I wol now quite the Knightes tale” (ll 17-19)

Who says this AND what does it mean to “quite” the Knight’s Tale?

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TWO POINTS Who is the speaker of this quote?“And therfore, whoso list it nought yheere

Turne over the leef, and chese another tale, For he shal finde ynowe, grete and smaleOf storial thing that touchest gentilesse, and eek moralitee and holinesse:Blameth nought me if that ye chese amis.” (ll 68-73)

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TWO POINTS Give one reason why The

Miller’s Tale is NOT a fabliau

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TWO POINTS What is the significance of this

quotation?

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