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4. The author of The Canterbury Tales.

5. Who is Geoffrey Chaucer? (10)

6. Because in this month, the weather was suitable for pilgrimages.

7. Why is April the month the story begins? (20)

8. He was martyred at Canterbury in 1170, and people in England visited his final resting place.

9. Who was Saint Thomas a Becket? (30)

10. A frame story.

11. What literary device did Chaucer use by having each of his characters tell a story on the way to Canterbury? (40)

12. “The Tabard Inn.”

13. What was the name of the Inn the narrator says he met twenty-nine pilgrims? (50)

14. The social system in England in the Middle Ages, it was a caste, property, and military system based on the religious idea of hierarchy.

15. What is feudalism? (10)

16. What males who were above the serf class were trained to become.

17. What are knights? (20)

18. The name for the system of codes governing the behavior of knights and women.

19. What is chivalry? (30)

20. The name of the wars waged by European Christians against the Muslims for possession of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

21. What were the Crusades? (40)

22. Mathematics, astronomy, architecture, and crafts.

23. In what areas did Europeans gain knowledge from their contact with Middle Eastern civilization? (50)

24. Mistreating a woman.

25. What was the knight’s crime?(10)

26. Sentenced to death.

27. What was the knight’s original sentence? (20)

28. The question the knight is given by the queen to answer to save his life.

29. “What is the thing women most desire?” (30)

30. Twenty four ladies dancing in the woods who vanish, leaving one old lady.

31. What did the knight find on his way to tell the queen he had not found the answer? (40)

32. To do whatever she required of him.

33. What did the knight agree to do for the old lady in exchange for the answer? (50)

34. “A woman wants the self-same sovereignty over her husband as over her lover, And master him; he must not be above her.”

35. What is the answer the knight gives to the queen? (10)

36. To take the old lady as his wife!

37. What does the old lady ask of the knight for telling him the answer? (20)

38. Old, plain, and low-bred.

39. What are the knight’s three objections to marrying her? (30)

40. “A gentleman is not merely someone who is titled a ‘gentleman’ - but is one who acts as a gentleman.”

41. What does the old lady tell the knight a true gentleman is? (40)

42. An example of a benefit of being poor – according to the old lad.

43. What is: 1) that God chose to reveal Himself in Christ, who was poor; or 2) that poverty can be seen in the wealthy who are not content with what they have; or 3) if you are poor, no one steals from you; or 4) being poor can motivate you to get ahead; or 5) poverty brings one to God? (50)

44. Ironic about the answer that saves the knight’s life.

45. What is that the knight was condemned to death for abusing a woman’s sovereignty and assuming he could have mastery over her? (10)

46. The point illustrated by the Wife of Bath’s allusion to the Midas story.

47. What is that women can’t keep a secret? (20)

48. Four and twenty ladies who vanish, then an old woman.

49. What does the knight see in the woods on his way to tell the queen he had found no answer? (30)

50. No joy or feast at all.