The Canterbury Tales Quizzes

The Canterbury Tales Quiz 1

By Robert William · Edited by Soman Chainani · Last reviewed November 30, 2008

1 What is the first Canterbury Tale?

The Reeve's Tale

The Knight's Tale

The Miller's Tale

The Cook's Tale
2 Which tale in the first fragment seems to be unfinished?

The Cook's Tale

The Knight's Tale

The Reeve's Tale

The Miller's Tale
3 Which tale tells the story of Symkyn the miller?

The Miller's Tale

The Reeve's Tale

The Shipman's Tale

The Wife of Bath's Tale
4 Which characters are in love with Alison in the Miller's Tale?

Absolon and Gervase

John, Absolon and Nicholas

Gervase and Nicholas

Absolon and Nicholas
5 What is the name of the carpenter in the Miller's Tale?

Absolon

Fred

Nicholas

John
6 Who farts in Absolon's face?

John

Alison

Nicholas

Gervase
7 Who cries out "Water" because their arse has been branded with a hot iron?

Alison

Absolon

Nicholas

John
8 What is the genre of tales to which the Miller's Tale might belong?

modernist narrative

romance

prose poem

fabliaux
9 Which two characters are thought to be indistinguishable from each other in the Knight's Tale?

Arcite and Palamon

Theseus and Hippolyta

Arcite and Theseus

Theseus and Palamon
10 Who dies at the end of the Knight's Tale?

Hippolyta

Theseus

Arcite

Palamon
11 Who are Arcite and Palamon in love with?

Each other

Absolon

Theseus

Emelye
12 How many husbands has the Wife of Bath had?

2

5

3

4
13 The Wife of Bath's first name is...

Alison

She isn't given a first name, just "the Wife"

Absolon

Bertha
14 The Wife of Bath's fifth husband is named...

Absolon

Theseus

January

Jankin
15 The Wife of Bath suffers, a little, from which ailment...

muteness

deafness

blindness

leprosy
16 What does the Wife use as a bargaining tool?

Food

Money

Sleep

Sex
17 The Wife of Bath claims to hate...

eating

men

clerks and glossing

cattle
18 In the General Prologue, which character is swathed in ten pounds of cloth?

The Reeve

The Wife of Bath

The Miller

The Summoner
19 Which two characters are sometimes read as a homosexual couple?

The Friar and the Summoner

Chaucer and the Reeve

The Miller and the Reeve

The Summoner and the Pardoner
20 Chaucer is...

an imaginary character in the pilgrimage

a character in the pilgrimage, and the author of the work as a whole

not the writer of the Canterbury Tales

not mentioned within the text of the Tales
21 Which pilgrim throws a book into the fire?

The Shipman

The Reeve

The Wife of Bath

The Miller
22 What does the Man of Law refuse to tell a tale about?

murder

Christians

blackmail

incest
23 Who interrupts the Parson just before he is to tell his tale?

The Manciple

The Reeve

The Shipman

The Summoner
24 The Cook's real name is

Harry Bailly

Roger of Ware

Geoffrey Chaucer

Roger Warren
25 The Host's name is

Roger Warren

Geoffrey Chaucer

Roger of Ware

Harry Bailey

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