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What is Chaucer´s attitude toward corruption in the Church?

2 Mention three important facts about Geoffrey Chaucer´s life.

3 What does Chaucer’s description of the pilgrimage indicate about society in his day?

4 What time of year is the pilgrimage? Why might people go on a pilgrimage at this time of year?

5 What is the starting point for the pilgrims? Whatis their ending point? Why are they heading here?

6 What does Chaucer say he will do in lines 35-42? How, or in what manner, willhe do it?

7 What do lines 54-65 indirectly suggest about the Knight’s character?

8 What qualities does the Knight possess that are different from what you might expect in a war-hardened soldier?

9 What does the Knight’s clothingreveal about his character? (75-78)

10 Why is the Knight on the pilgrimage? (80) Why did Chaucer start with the Knight?

11 What does the simile in lines 91-92 suggest about the Squire?

12 How does the Squire compare to his father the Knight? (97-102)

13 Chaucer’s description of the Yeoman is purely visual. How might the last line of his section be an example of verbalirony? (121)

14 What is the relationship among the Knight, the Squire and the Yeoman?

15 What two basic qualities does the sentence in lines 141-145 attribute to the Nun?

16 What can be inferred about the Prioress from her view on animals? (149-154)

17 What can be inferred about the Prioress based on the detailed description of her jewelry? (160-166) Coral was considered adefense against worldly temptation as well as a love charm. Is coral appropriate for a Prioress to wear?

18 What is Chaucer saying about the Prioress by calling her Madam Eglantyne?

19 What is the Monk’s main interest? (193-196)

20 Identify key elements of the description of the Monk. (192-211)

21 What do the details about the Monk’s habits and tastes indirectly suggestabout religious institutions of the time?

22 Identify key elements of the description of the Friar.

23 One of the Friar’s duties is to hear people’s confessions and to forgive them with a penance or penalty of prayer or doing good work. What is suggested about this Friar? (224-228) (235-238)

24 What characteristics might Chaucer want a white neck to represent? (242)

25How does the Friar earn his living? Where should this money be going?

26 What is your impression of the Merchant? What flaw does he keep hidden?

27 Next to the Knight, the Oxford Cleric is the most admired. What about him is admirable? What are the Cleric’s interests?

28 In the description of the Sergeant, what evidence is there of the narrator’s disapproval? (322-323)(326-327) (331-332)

29 What are the Franklin’s interests?

30 What question do lines 346-348 answer about the main idea in line 345?

31 What qualities are admirable about the “Tradesmen”? (371-388)

32 What point is Chaucer making about the relationship between the Tradesmen and their wives? (380-388)

33 Why does Chaucer wait until the end of the Cook’s description to tellus about the “sore” on his knee? (395-397)

34 What can be inferred about the Skipper from line 400?

35 What picture of the Skipper is created by the mixture of details about his heart-lessness with details about his competence? What are two characteristics of the Skipper?

36 What is being said about how the Doctor practices medicine? (421-428)

37 What is the importanceof the Doctor not reading the Bible? (448)

38 What is the Wife of Bath concerned about when she goes to church? What does this suggest about her character? (459-460) (463-467)

39 What words of phrases would you use to describe the Wife of Bath?

40 What do we learn about the Parson from lines 493-500?

41 What is the Parson’s main characteristic? (507)

42 How does...