Blog

The Prioress is obsessed with:  

The closing line for the Yeoman, “He was a proper forester, I guess” suggests that the narrator is:  

According to the narrator, there are ________ people making the same trip.  

Chaucer makes note of this character’s forehead, which is “almost a span across.”  (NOTE:  A “span”  is more than nine inches.)  

The pilgrims in the story are hoping to travel to:  

In the Catholic religion, two saints, Saint Maur and Saint Benet established rules for how monks were to behave.  How does the Monk in “The Canterbury Tales” feel about these important rules the religious histororical documents?  

The “greyhounds and hunting” that the Monk prefers are:  

Chaucer was likely born during the decade.  

Where does the Friar prefer to go–to help people in the Middle Ages?

Giving pocket knives to girls directly contradicts this characters place in the church, whereby they should be taking a vow of poverty so that they can “do for others less fortunate.”