THE CANTERBURY TALES

TRIVIA GAME

Chrsitine Crisci

Test your knowledge about The Canterbury Tales.

Questions:

1. He was quite good with a bow and arrow.

2. She is very delicate and would weep to see a mouse caught in a trap.

3. He is a shrewd businessman and knows a good bargain.

4. An able attorney.

5. My name is Hubert.

6. He called his ship the Madeleine.

7. He could quote all the medical authorities but not the Bible.

8. He played the bagpipes.

9. She was married five times.

10. He loved truth, freedom, chivalry and honor.

11. This tale find Palamon and Arcite in anguish only to increase with the appearance of Emily.

12. John and Alan played musical beds in this tale.

13. A foolish carpenter believes his story in this tale. (Who is he and in what tale?)

14. In the Wife of Bath's tale, what did the Queen want the knight to find out?

15. This tale tells a saint's life (St. Cecilia, if you must know!)

16. A child is brutally murdered by Jews in this tale.

17. Griselda was put through a series of test by her husband. Whose tale is this?

18. What was the name of Griselda's husband?

19. Celebrating his twentieth anniversary, a knight named Gawain came to the celebration with four gifts: a brass horse, a mirror, a ring, and a sword. Whose tale is this?

20. Dorigen makes a promise to Aurelius, one she can't keep, in exchange for the safe return of Arveragus. Name the tale.

QUOTES FROM THE TEXT -- Name the tale

21. He rood upon a rouncy, as he kouthe,

In a gowne of faldyng to the knee.

A daggere hangynge on a laas hadde he

Aboute his nekke, under his arm adoun.

The hoote somer hadde maad his hewe al broun;

22. A swerd and bokeler bar he by his syde.

A whit cote and a blew hood wered he.

A bagpipe wel koude he blow and sowne,

And therwithal he brought us out of towne.

23. Ful semyly hir wympul pynched was,

Hir nose tretys, hir eyen greye as glas,

Hir mouth ful smal, and therto softe and reed.

But sikerly she hadde a fair forheed;

24. Lo, swich it is for to be recchelees

And necligent, and truste on flaterye.

But ye that holden this tale a folye,

As of a fox, or of a cok and hen,

25. But for to tellen yow of his array,

His hors were goode, but he was nat gay.

Of fustian he wered a gypon

Al bismotered with his habergeon,

For he was late ycome from his viage,

And wente for to doon his pilgrymage.

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