Wife Of Bath

Question 1

Quote for… her deafness

Answer 1

She was somdel deef

Question 2

Quote for… her clothes

Answer 2

Hir hosen were of fyn scarlet reed

Question 3

Quote for… her worthiness

Answer 3

She was a worthy womman al hir live

Question 4

Quote for… number of husbands

Answer 4

Housbondes at chirche door she hadde five

Question 5

Quote for… her teeth

Answer 5

Gat-tothed was she

Question 6

Quote for… her view of marriage

Answer 6

wo that is in marriage

Question 7

Quote for… King Solomon

Answer 7

The wise king Salomon, I trowe he hadde wives mo than one

Question 8

Quote for… her next husband

Answer 8

Welcome the sixte when that ere he shal

Question 9

Quote for… her marital duty

Answer 9

In wyfhood I wol use myn instrument for myn enterte is but for to pleye

Question 10

Quote for… a summary of her 3 husbands

Answer 10

the thre men were goode, riche and olde

Question 11

Quote for… her view of maistrie

Answer 11

Be maister of my body and my good

Question 12

Quote for… her fourth husband

Answer 12

my fourthe husband was a revelour, he hadde a paramour

Question 13

Quote for… Jankin’s legs

Answer 13

Me thoughest he hadde a paire of legs so clean and faire

Question 14

Quote for… her vagina

Answer 14

I hadde the best quonaniam may be

Question 15

Quote for… how she was made deaf

Answer 15

I rente out of his book a leefe that of the strook myn ere wax al deef

Question 16

Quote for… her with the power

Answer 16

He yal me al the bridel in myn hand to han the governance of hous and land

Question 17

Quote for… her and Jankin at peace

Answer 17

And after that day we hadden never debaat

Question 18

Quote for… the knights description

Answer 18

a lusty bachelor

Question 19

Quote for… he knights rape

Answer 19

By verray force he raft her of hire maidenhead

Question 20

Quote for… Queen Gwen’s sentence

Answer 20

I grante thee lyf if thou kanst tellen me what thing it is that women moost desiren

Question 21

Quote for… the loathy lady’s promise

Answer 21

Plight me thy trouthe heere in myn hand, the nexte thing I require thee thou shalt do it

Question 22

Quote for… the knights answer

Answer 22

Wommen desiren to have soverienitee

Question 23

Quote for… the loathy lady’s request

Answer 23

thou me take unto thy wife

Question 24

Quote for… the loathy lady’s transformation

Answer 24

that she so faire was, and so yong therto

Question 25

Quote for... Knight's view of his punishment

Answer 25

'how he waileth'

Question 26

Critic view on... Wife as a critique of society

Answer 26

Dinshaw: She is happy to keep it in place, but she wants it to accommodate feminine desires

Question 27

Critic quote for... the black death

Answer 27

Patterson: 'Social boundaries were breaking down. The wife is then a product of this new order.'

Question 28

Critic quote for... Chaucer as a proto-feminist

Answer 28

The Guardian says: Women take control of their own destinies

Question 29

Critic quote for... sex and power link

Answer 29

Owen: 'Much of the sex in the text has little to do with desire and a lot to do with power.'

Question 30

Critic quote for... the Wife's clever use of power

Answer 30

Knight: 'The wife's clever use of power means she is able to escape male dominance'

Question 31

Critic quote for... Wife as a sociopath

Answer 31

Sands: 'Sociopath unable to form meaningful relationships'

Question 32

Critic quote for... Wife reinforcing anti-feminist views

Answer 32

Hansen: Wife is a creation of man therefore, 'seen as reinforcing anti-feminist views rather than undermining them.'

Question 33

Quote for... God's view of sex

Answer 33

God bad us for to wexe and multiplie

Question 34

Quote for... Wife mistreatment of husbands

Answer 34

They loved me so wel, that I ne tolde no deyntee of their love

Question 35

Quote for... Wife's lecherous bird

Answer 35

and singe, ywis as any nightingale

Question 36

Critic quote for... Wife's discourse

Answer 36

Woods: Her discourse is marked by frank and almost obstreperous animalism.

Question 37

Quote for... Wife getting soverignity

Answer 37

got by maistrye al the soveraynetee

Question 38

Quote for... Wife's job

Answer 38

Of clooth-makyng she hadde swich an haunt

Question 39

Quote for... her love of Jankin

Answer 39

My fifthe housbonde, God his soule blesse, | Which that I took for love and no richesse

Question 40

Quote for... Knight giving Wife power

Answer 40

My lady and my love, and wyf so deere, | I put me in youre wise governance

Question 41

Quote for... status of three husbands

Answer 41

hadde social degree

Question 42

Critic quote for... the basis of marriage

Answer 42

Owen: Marriage was a social and business institution

Question 43

Critic quote for... representation of marriage

Answer 43

Owen: It is often little more than a setting for the events of a story

Question 44

Critic quote for... wife's embodied negative female characteristics

Answer 44

Tucker: The Wife of Bath embodies a number of negative female characteristics...stupidity, arrogance and deceitfulness

Question 45

Critic quote for... Wife's view of love and sex

Answer 45

Williams: The Wife reduces human love and sex to business transactions

Question 46

Quote for... Wife's affair in fields

Answer 46

Jankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis and I myself, into the fields went

Question 47

Quote for... Wife's affair when #4 away

Answer 47

I hadde the betrre leyser for to pleye

Question 48

Quote for... Wife not really loving #4

Answer 48

I wepte but smal, and that I undertake

Question 49

Critic quote for... The Knight's change in the tale

Answer 49

Wainwright: The story of the change which occurs in a selfish, proud, and morally blind knight who is taught to find beauty and worth in wisdom and purity