a professional class of merchants and intellectuals had emerged

Middle English was used

between the 12th and the 15th centuries

Chaucer gives us a portrait of English society

satirizing the characters' worldview

One of the reason why readers keep liking this work is

the variation, which includes something for everyone

influenced Chaucer's vision of his work

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The Canterbury Tales

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1
In Medieval society
it was easy to find nobility and peasants all together
a professional class of merchants and intellectuals had emerged
it was easy to find clergy, nobility and working classes in the same place
a working class of peasants had emerged
2
The Canterbury Tales
is not read anymore
can be read only in English
is still read
can't be translated in Latin languages
3
The Middle English alphabet includes
yogh, which denotes the Y
yogh, which denotes the gh
yogh, which denotes the J
yogh, which is not a letter
4
Each story is
told by the host of the inn
told by Chaucer
told by one of the characters
told by a Knight or a clerk
5
The Prologue of the Canterbury Tales
is only a translation
is unfinished
is composed of four stories
introduces 29 pilgrims
6
Who wins the competition...
will tell the best tale
will have some money
will travel first
will be treated to dinner
7
Middle English was used
between the 12th and the 14th centuries
between the 12th and the 15th centuries
during the Norman Conquest
between the 11th and the 15th centuries
8
The characters are all on a pilgrimage
to the house of Thomas Beckett
to the Tabard Inn
to Canterbury
to visit a South shire
9
Chaucer gives us a portrait of English society
showing us the life of a Parson
describing the cook's work
satirizing the characters' worldview
expressing his own opinion
10
To get sometime alone together, the scholar and the wife...
don't expose themselves in public
play different tricks
read biblical passages
become mad
11
The Tales are written in
Middle English
different languages
Old English
Modern English
12
The narrative poem is composed of
over 170 lines
over 17000 lines
over 17 short poems
over 1700 lines
13
The characters that are not mentioned are...
knights, nuns or clerks
reeves and mancibles
the cook and the parson
the bishops
14
The competition is proposed
by the Host
by the narrator
by the Bishop
by the Parson
15
The winner of the competition is
the innkeeper
no one
the reader
Chaucer himself
16
The Canterbury Tales consists of
29 stories
24 stories
24 poems
29 poems
17
One of the reason why readers keep liking this work is
remarks about sex
chivalry and Medieval values
its comedy aspect
the variation, which includes something for everyone
18
Chaucer spent most of his life
as a professional merchant
as a traveller in Italy
as a soldier in the Hundred Years' War
as a government official
19
The characters of the Tales first meet
at an inn in Southwark
in a port near London
in Canterbury
at the Tabard Hospice in London
20
Voyages may have
influenced Chaucer's language
mixed the different social classes
influenced Chaucer's vision of his work
influenced the structure of the lines

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