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Unit Quiz

The Canterbury Tales: ‘General Prologue’

This quiz will help you to assess your learning of key concepts and knowledge in this unit.

Q1.What is a frame narrative?

A story where someone is accused of a crime they didn't commit.A story within a story.Two stories which run alongside each other.

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Q2.Which Estate does the Knight belong to?

First Estate (Clergy)Second Estate (Nobility)Third Estate (Peasantry)

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Q3.What is 'satire'?

When our expectations are reversed.Making fun of someone’s stupidity or bad behaviour to try and make them improve.Making something seem more than it is.Making the reader laugh.

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Q4.What is 'irony'?

Making someone or something seem ridiculous.When our expectations are reversed.Making the reader laugh.Making something seem more than it is.

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Q5.Which Estate were the clergy (members of the Church, such as Friars and Prioresses)?

FirstSecondThird

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Q6.Which languages did Chaucer speak?

French, Latin, GermanGerman, Latin, SpanishFrench, Latin, ItalianFrench, Latin, Spanish

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Q7.Why is Chaucer still important today?

He isn't.Because he knew Italian.Because his father was a wine merchant.Because he was the first person to write literature in English.

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Q8.What is a pilgrimage?

A type of story.A religious journey.Someone considered holy by Christians.

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Q9.What is the Knight's role?

A man who served his Lord as a soldier in armour and on horseback.A member of a religious community of men.A man who works at a mill.

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Q10.What is chivalry?

The code of behaviour that Knights follow.To be successful and greatly respected.Someone who does not boast about their achievements.

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Q11.What were the two options for most women in the Middle Ages?

Serve the Monarch as a Knight or a Lord.Marry or get a job.Marry or become a Nun.

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