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General Prologue
Chaucer
HOTEC
WOB
TP

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Final Jeopardy
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100 Question from Chaucer
Chaucers father was a prosperous ________
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100 Answer from Chaucer
Wine merchant
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200 Question from Chaucer
Chaucer was held ransom during this war
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200 Answer from Chaucer
Hundreds years war
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300 Question from Chaucer
What is a page?
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300 Answer from Chaucer
A page is the first position held by a boy in
order to become a knight. At the age of seven
young boys would become pages. Pages learned
basic fighting skills and ran errands.
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400 Question from Chaucer
Chaucer worked as a page in this household
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400 Answer from Chaucer
The household of Countess Ulster
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500 Question from Chaucer
Name at least two jobs that Chaucer held
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500 Answer from Chaucer
Possible answers include Forester, Royal
messenger and justice of the peace
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100 Question from HOTEC
What talent was given to Caedmon?
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100 Answer from HOTEC
The ability to sing about God, religion, and the
bible.
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200 Question from HOTEC
Based on THOTEC what do we learn about
monasteries during seventh-century England?
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200 Answer from HOTEC
We learn that monasteries were a place for
learning and education.
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300 Question from HOTEC
What is an abbess?
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300 Answer from HOTEC
head of convent the nun in charge of a convent
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400 Question from HOTEC
What do we learn about the importance of poetry
in seventh-century England?
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400 Answer from HOTEC
We learn that it was a oral tradition and that
people who had musical abilities were glorified.
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500 Question from HOTEC
What do we learn about peoples world view based
on the test of THOTEC?
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500 Answer from HOTEC
We learn that they took dreams seriously and that
they were considered messages from God.
Additionally we learn that a pious life was
revered.
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100 Question from WOB
How many husbands has the Wife of Bath had?
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100 Answer from WOB
Five
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200 Question from WOB
What does the Wife of Bath use to justify her
many marriages and sexual appetite?
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200 Answer from WOB
The bible
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300 Question from WOB
According to her tale what does every woman want?
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300 Answer from WOB
Every woman wants autonomy.
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400 Question from WOB
According to the Wife of Bath which husbands were
the best? Why?
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400 Answer fromWOB
The two oldest ones were the best because they
were rich
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500 Question from WOB
Why does the Wife of Bath digress from her story
to tell the readers about stories like the one
about King Midas?
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500 Answer from WOB
These interruptions serve the purpose of building
suspense and of showing her literary knowledge
and worldliness.
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100 Question from TP
Which allegorical character is presented in the
Pardoners tale?
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100 Answer from TP
The Grim Reaper. Death
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200 Question from TP
What is an Exemplum?
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200 Answer from TP
An exemplum is a short anecdote or story that
illustrates a particular moral point.
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300 Question from TP
How does the Pardoner reflect the middle ages?
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300 Answer from TP
Unscrupulous church associates like the Pardoner,
continued to prey upon ignorant people, selling
fake relics and promising to cleanse sins or cure
sickness.
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400 Question from TP
What is ironic about the speech the Pardoners
gives at the end of his tale?
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400 Answer from TP
After telling a story about greed and avarice the
Pardoner tries to scare people into buying relics
that will cleanse them of sin
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500 Question from TP
What ailment swept across Europe that might have
left the other pilgrims vulnerable to the
Pardoners tale?
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500 Answer from TP
The Black Death The Bubonic Plague
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100 Question from the general prologue
During what time of the year are the pilgrims
traveling?
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100 Answer from the general prologue
April
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200 Question from the general prologue
What is ironic about the way the Squire is
described?
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200 Answer from the general prologue
The Squire is described as someone who likes to
dance, read, and write. However, a Squire should
have been described in more manly terms.
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300 Question from the general prologue
Who is the narrator of the poem?
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300 Answer from the general prologue
The narrator is a pilgrim on his way to
Canterbury. His name is Herry Bailly.
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400 Question from the general prologue
Much humor from the prologue is derived from
irony and the discrepancy between what appears to
be true and what is actually true. Explain how
this is seen in the Nun.
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400 Answer from the general prologue
The Nun wishes to be sophisticated yet her poor
French, table manners, and jewelry suggest
otherwise. Additionally, she seems overly
concerned with her appearance instead of
concerning herself with being pious.
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500 Question from the general prologue
What is distinguishable about the order in which
the pilgrims tell their stories?
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500 Answer from the general prologue
They are told in order of their social rank
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Final Jeopardy
What is a fabliau?
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Final Jeopardy Answer
a short, usually comic, frankly coarse, and often
cynical tale