Chaucer Test Review

CANTERBURY TALES

why is it great

objective of prologue

Define pilgrimage

how many tales are told

winner gets what

where are they going

what time of year

where does narrator meet pilgrims

most of clergy have in common

PARDONER’S TALE

Who poisons? Who stabs?

Offering after tale?

Treatment of old man on side of road?

Revealed during prologue about pardoner?

Who is chosen to see relics first?

Why does he tell tale?

subject of the sermon?

SIR GAWAIN AND GREEN KNIGHT

Author

Why was it written so late

What type of lit.

When is Gawain supposed to meet GK

What does host’s wife give Gawain

Noise Gawain hears as he enters castle

What happens during first swing

Why does GK only nick neck

Gawain’s response to GK’s praise

Why does GK return sash to Gawain

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

language

when was he alive

vernacular?

LE MORTE D’ARTHUR

Author

Malory’s other job

Define romance hero

Arthur’s son

What does dream mean

Why do they go to war

What Sir Lucas finds on battlefield

Who dies trying to help Arthur

What happens when Excalibur is thrown in lake

What becomes of Sir Bedivere

ESSAY

Define verbal/situational irony + examples from PT.

Physical Description :: Character in CT.

Chaucer’s view of clergy in CT.

Define romance. Examples from Gawain.