Canterbury Tales Characters

Question 1

Knight

Answer 1

Ideal of medieval Christian Knight

Question 2

Wife of Bath

Answer 2

Married 5 times

Question 3

Pardoner

Answer 3

Sells indulgences

Beardless

Question 4

Miller

Answer 4

Stout, Brawny, Drunkard

Question 5

Prioress (nun)

Answer 5

Very neat when she eats

Question 6

Monk

Answer 6

Fat, wears furs and hunting boots

Question 7

Friar

Answer 7

Roaming priest

Accepts bribes

Question 8

Summoner

Answer 8

Brings those accused of violating church law to ecclesiastical church

Ugly face

Question 9

Host

Answer 9

Owner of Tabbard’s Inn

Question 10

Parson

Answer 10

Only devout church man

Question 11

Squire

Answer 11

Knights son

Wears flowers

Question 12

Clerk

Answer 12

Student of philosophy

Spends all his money on books

Question 13

Man of Law

Answer 13

Lawyer

Question 14

Manciple

Answer 14

In charge of getting provisions for 30 lawyers

Smarter than people he feeds

Question 15

Merchant

Answer 15

Modern business man

Very deep in debt

Question 16

Skipper

Answer 16

Steals wine while captain sleeps

Question 17

Physician

Answer 17

Consults unsavory apothecaries

Question 18

Franklin

Answer 18

Loves to feed people

Tax collector

Question 19

Reeve

Answer 19

Steals from his master

Question 20

Plowman

Answer 20

Parson brother equally good

Question 21

Cook

Answer 21

Has a sore on his leg

Question 22

Yeomen

Answer 22

Accompanies knight forester

Question 23

Narrator

Answer 23

Chaucer