Q 01/05
A) Old English
B) Middle English
C) Latin
D) Anglo-Norman French
Answer · why
Middle English was his choice although he read Latin, French and Italian; writing in the everyday London speech of his time let him catch his pilgrims...
Q 02/05
A) 12
B) 24
C) 48
D) 96
Answer · why
24 tales are all the collection holds: some pilgrims never get a turn and the party never starts for home, so most scholars think Chaucer died with it...
Q 03/05
A) Saint Thomas Becket
B) Saint Alban
C) Saint Edmund
D) Saint Augustine
Answer · why
Saint Thomas Becket was the archbishop murdered in his own cathedral in 1170; the Prologue says pilgrims seek the martyr because he helped them when t...
Q 04/05
A) Edward III
B) Richard II
C) Henry IV
D) Henry V
Answer · why
Richard II was king, and the great rising of his reign reaches the Nun's Priest's Tale, where a farmyard chase out-shouts Jack Straw's rebels.
Q 05/05
A) The White Hart
B) The Bell
C) The Tabard
D) The George
Answer · why
The Tabard was a real inn on Borough High Street: it burned in Southwark's great fire of 1676, and its rebuilt successor, long known as the Talbot, wa...
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