TRB & POLYTECHNIC TRB ENGLISH : The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

1. How many tiles are there in The Canterbury Tales?

 24

 

2. Name the host in “The Canterbury tales”

Harry Bailey

 

3. What is the most common meter employed in Chaucer's poem The Canterbury Tales?

The Heroic Couplet

 

4. How many tales are there in The Canterbury Tales?

24

 

5. How many tales are in Verse?

22 tales

 

6. The Canterbury tales depicts a picture gallery of?

Contemporary society of that age

 

7. The pilgrims In the Canterbury tales assembled at the

Tabard Inn

 

8. What does the prioress's name Eglantine mean?

My Lady Sweet Brier

9. How many women characters figure in The Canterbury Tales?

3

 

10. To which shrine are the programs going?

Shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury

 

11. The tale which is written in prose

The Parson's take

 

12. One of portraits in the Prologue is that of the wife of Bath. What is Bath?

The name of the town to which she belonged

 

13. He was as fresh as the month of May. This line occurs in the prologue. Whom does this line refer to?

Squire

 

14. The letter “A” on the broach of prioress stands for?

Amor Vincit Omnia

 

15. How many stories does Chaucer himself tell in The Canterbury tales?

2

1. The Tale of Sir Topas

2. The Tale of Melibee

 

16. The real name of the Wife of Bath

Alison