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Respond #1. Do you think the knight gets what he deserves? Explain. Recall and Interpret. 2)a) What questions does the knight have to answer to save his life? 2)b) How do you think the knight feels when he provides the queen with the correct answer?. Recall and Interpret.

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  1. Respond #1 • Do you think the knight gets what he deserves? Explain

  2. Recall and Interpret • 2)a) What questions does the knight have to answer to save his life? • 2)b) How do you think the knight feels when he provides the queen with the correct answer?

  3. Recall and Interpret • 2)a) What questions does the knight have to answer to save his life? What is the thing women most desire? • 2)b) How do you think the knight feels when he provides the queen with the correct answer? Relieved and elated…

  4. Question 3 • 3)a) What bargain does the old woman make with the knight? • 3)b) What is the ironic connection between the answer to the queens question and the requirement that the old woman demands of the knight?

  5. Question 3 • 3)a) What bargain does the old woman make with the knight? The old woman will tell him the answer if he promises to what she wants him to do. • 3)b) What is the ironic connection between the answer to the queens question and the requirement that the old woman demands of the knight? What women wants, mastery over husbands, is what she achieves.

  6. Question 4 • 4)a) Summarize the ending of the “Wife of Bath”… • 4)b) what lesson does the ending teach?

  7. Question 4 • 4)a) Summarize the ending of the “Wife of Bath”… The hag becomes a beautiful woman. • 4)b) what lesson does the ending teach? Perhaps it teaches that women want men to be under their control.

  8. Question 5 • 5)a)How does the old woman get the knight to change his attitude toward marrying her? • B)do you find her method convincing? Explain…

  9. Question 5 • 5)a)How does the old woman get the knight to change his attitude toward marrying her? She refutes his objections to her lack of gentility, her poverty, her age and ugliness. She reminds him that she saved his life. • B)do you find her method convincing? Explain… Do you? Opinion question, explain why…

  10. Question 6 • 6)a) Through her arguments, what is the old woman ultimately demanding that the knight acknowledge? • B) How does the knight’s acknowledgement transform both the knight and the old woman?

  11. Question 6 • 6)a) Through her arguments, what is the old woman ultimately demanding that the knight acknowledge? Her intelligence, humanity, and inner worth. • B) How does the knight’s acknowledgement transform both the knight and the old woman? He is transformed into a modest gentleman, she becomes a beautiful young woman.

  12. Question 7 • 7)a) Do you think Chaucer’s portrayal of the wife indicate that he was ahead of his time in his view of women? Why/why not?

  13. Question 7 • 7)a) Do you think Chaucer’s portrayal of the wife indicate that he was ahead of his time in his view of women? Why/why not? The portrayal of the Wife of Bath is humorous, not disparaging.

  14. Question 8 • In your opinion, is the lesson that the Wife teaches relevant to today’s world? Explain…

  15. Question 8 • In your opinion, is the lesson that the Wife teaches relevant to today’s world? Explain… The tale has a strong feminist (women are equal to men) message that resonates with the modern principle of the intellectual (mental/mind) equality between the sexes. In this sense, Chnuacers thinking was ahead of his time.

  16. Question 9 • To what extent does the “Wife of Bath’s Tale” illustrate the power of Christian faith?

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