The Canterbury Tales

Question 1

Amity

Answer 1

A friendly relationship

Question 2

Betray

Answer 2

To expose to danger by treacherously giving info to an enemy

Question 3

Boon

Answer 3

A thing that is helpful or beneficial

Question 4

Buffoon

Answer 4

A ridiculous but amusing person; a clown

Question 5

Clemency

Answer 5

Mercy; lenience

Question 6

Conundrum

Answer 6

A confusing and difficult problem or question

Question 7

Conveyance

Answer 7

The action or process of transporting someone or something from one place to another

Question 8

Iniquity

Answer 8

Immoral or grossly unfair behavior

Question 9

Lamentation

Answer 9

The passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping

Question 10

Miscreant

Answer 10

A person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks the law

Question 11

Prescience

Answer 11

The fact of knowing something before it takes place; foreknowledge

Question 12

Prevarication

Answer 12

To avoid telling the truth by not directly answering a question

Question 13

Prattle

Answer 13

To talk at length in a foolish manner

Question 14

Recrimination

Answer 14

An accusation in response to one from someone else

Question 15

Screeds

Answer 15

A long speech or piece of writing, typically one regarded as tedious

Question 16

Sundry

Answer 16

Various kinds; several

Question 17

Superfluities

Answer 17

An unnecessarily or excessively large amount or number of something

Question 18

Sycophant

Answer 18

A person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain an advantage

Question 19

Temporal

Answer 19

Relating to worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs; secular

Question 20

Tithes

Answer 20

1/10 of annual produce of earnings; formerly taken as a tax for the church and clergy

Question 21

Transmutation

Answer 21

The action of changing is the state of being changed into another form

Question 22

Wimpled

Answer 22

A woman’s headcloth drawn in folds about the chin; formerly worn outdoors; still used by some nuns

Question 23

Irony

Answer 23

The use of words to convey a meaning that is opposite of its true meaning

Question 24

Situational irony

Answer 24

When something unexpected occurs

Question 25

Verbal irony

Answer 25

Occurs when the speaker says the opposite of what he/she means

Question 26

He was a master-hand at stealing grain and he told filthy tavern stories; a chap of sixteen stone

Answer 26

The Miller

Question 27

A poor, holy-minded man who truly knows Christ’s Gospel?

Answer 27

The Parson

Question 28

Somewhat deaf, gap-toothed, and large in the hips (Kyrie)

Answer 28

A woman from Bath

Question 29

He was Epicurus’s very son; a pleasure seeker

Answer 29

Franklin

Question 30

Suggests that they all yell tell two stories each coming and going from Canterbury

Answer 30

The Host

Question 31

Sold pieces of the mast from St. Peter’s ship and sang the Offertory for money

Answer 31

The Pardoner

Question 32

Wore a brooch that says “Love conquers all”.

Answer 32

The nun

Question 33

He heard confessions for a fee and knew all the taverns and bar maids

Answer 33

The Friar

Question 34

Followed chivalry, truth, generousness, and courtesy

Answer 34

The Knight

Question 35

Hunting was his sport; a good man to his horse; took the worlds more spacious way

Answer 35

The Monk

Question 36

He spent his money on learning and buying books

Answer 36

The Oxford Cleric

Question 37

An honest worker, good and true, living in peace and perfect charity

Answer 37

The Plowman