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True or False. The Pardoner describes many sins (including drunkenness, gambling/greed, and cursing) in his “Prologue” that he then depicts through the actions and speech of the characters in his “Tale.” In a sense, this allows him to commit some of those sins (such as cursing), even though he defends his tale as having a moral.

True or False. According to the “Pardoner’s Tale,” the companions claim “Fortune” has left them the treasure, but Death is truly responsible for setting them up.

20. Cranial bones develop ________.                

27. A neurotransmitter released at motor endplates by the axon terminals.          

True or False. Chaucer was born into an emerging social class that was beginning to blur the traditional boundaries.

Although the Host wants the Pardoner to tell a funny story since the Physician’s tale was discouraging, the other pilgrims on the journey insist the Pardoner tell a wise moral tale.

The Pardoner attempts to sell his fellow pilgrims indulgences and relics at the end of the tale even though he told them he was FRAUD in his prologue.

21. Control of temperature, endocrine activity, and thirst are functions associated with the ________.        

31. The thin filaments (actin) contain a polypeptide subunit G actin that bears active sites for myosin attachment.

The Wife of Bath is an interesting character in Chaucer’s “General Prologue”? She would have been considered very worldly by her fellow travelers because she had been on far-away pilgrimages before (and thus was well-traveled) and because she had had multiple husbands (and thus knew her way around…”love”).