Wife of Bath Prologue

Question 1

What language does Chaucer write in?

Accepted Answer

Middle English

Question 2

How many stories are there in The Canterbury Tales?

Accepted Answer

24

Question 3

For what reason does she marry Jankin?

Accepted Answer

For love

Question 4

Which statement is NOT true about the wife?

Accepted Answer

She has a daughter

Question 5

Whose shrine are the pilgrims aiming to visit?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Beckett

Question 6

For what reason could you win the Dunmore Flitch?

Accepted Answer

If you could prove you had never regretted marriage

Question 7

Which biblical figure does the wife use as an example of a man with multiple marriages?

Accepted Answer

Solomon

Question 8

What is the Wife's name?

Accepted Answer

Alison

Question 9

In the Ellesmere manuscript, whose tale proceeds the wife's?

Accepted Answer

The Man of Law

Question 10

Who interrupts the wife?

Accepted Answer

The Pardoner

Question 11

The wife likens herself to what food stuff?

Accepted Answer

barley bread

Question 12

Finish the quote 'Experience though noon.....'

Accepted Answer

auctoritee

Question 13

What colour is the wife associated with?

Accepted Answer

Red

Question 14

Where do all of the pilgrims meet?

Accepted Answer

The Tabard Inn

Question 15

How old is the wife when she marries for the first time?

Accepted Answer

12

Questions 15