What Do You Know About The Canterbury Tales?
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The Canterbury Tales is a variety of 24 stories that run to over 17,000 lines that is written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer from 1387 to 1400. Take a quiz and learn about these tales.
Questions and Answers
- 1.Which year did Geoffrey Chaucer become controller of customs?
- A.
1398
- B.
1938
- C.
1389
- D.
1983
- 2.Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales is a collection of?
- A.
23
- B.
25
- C.
28
- D.
24
- 3.Which year was the Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales published?
- A.
1990
- B.
1470
- C.
1475
- D.
1476
- 4.The Canterbury Tales is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to?
- A.
Italy
- B.
Rome
- C.
Canterbury
- D.
Jerusalem
- 5.Canterbury Tales became famous because Chaucer decided to write in English, not?
- A.
Spanish
- B.
Latin
- C.
Greek
- D.
French
- 6.What is the name of the writer of The Canterbury’s Tales?
- A.
Paradise Lost
- B.
Chaucer began
- C.
David Copperfield
- D.
None of the above
- 7.The pilgrims travel together on a journey from London to?
- A.
Rome
- B.
Canterbury
- C.
Yugoslavia
- D.
Liverpool
- 8.Whose shrine were the pilgrims journeyed to Canterbury Cathedral to visit?
- A.
Thomas Becket
- B.
Aron John
- C.
Phil Collins
- D.
None of the above
- 9.Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a few text earlier in his career including?
- A.
Troilus and Criseyde
- B.
House of Fame
- C.
Parliament of Fowls
- D.
All of the above
- 10.Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales is near-unanimously seen as Chaucer’s?
- A.
Magnum opus
- B.
Medieval work
- C.
Good work
- D.
None of the above
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