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Chaucer life and works
Chaucer life and works
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revision about Chaucer's life and the "Canterbury Tales"
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1
"The Canterbury Tales" are written in .......
English
Middle English
Anglo-Saxon
2
During Chaucer's time ..... languages were spoken : ......
two... French and English
three.... French, Italian, English
three...French, Latin, Anglo Saxon
3
The story is about ..... people who meet at the Tabard Inn in .....
30.....Florence
30......London
20...... London
4
Chaucer was the son of.....
a priest
a wine merchant
a merchant
5
Chaucer .............. the social hierarchy of presentation of the time.
sometimes followed
did not follow
followed
6
Chaucer wrote ..... tales.
24
120
30
7
Chaucer' s Canterbury Tales are influenced by .......
Dante' s Divine Comedy
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Boccaccio 's Decameron
8
The characters are taken from......
all social classes
all social classes except the peasants and the aristocrats
the noble class
9
What was the purpose of a pilgrimage in medieval times?
fate, forgiveness, give thanks
faith, keeping fit, have fun
faith, forgiveness, give thanks
10
The tales are...... preceded by a Prologue.
usually
never
always
11
Each pilgrim should tell .... stories.
two
five
four
12
Chaucer is buried in .......
Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Abbey
St. Paul's Cathedral
13
His masterpiece "The Canterbury Tales" belongs to a genre called ....
estates satire
aesthetic satire
states satire
14
The Canterbury Tales belong to the ....... period.
Italian
French
English
15
What did Chaucer add?
he included pilgrims who do not fit into the 3 estates
he excluded the merchants
he included pilgrims who fit in the 3 estates
16
The names given to the pilgrims .....
are proper names
refer to their ages
refer to their professions and degrees
17
Canterbury Cathedral is the shrine of Thomas Becket, archbishop and martyr killed by ...
Henry II' knights
Stephen's knights
Henry I's knights
18
His works can be divided into three periods....
French, Italian, English
English, French, Spanish
French, German, Italian
