1. Who were kings of England during Chaucer’s lifetime?
Ans: Edward III (1327 -1377), Richard II (1377- 1399) and Henry IV (1399-1413)
2. Shakespeare wrote dramas on two of them? Identify.
Ans: Richard II- A tragedy and Henry IV-a comedy.
3. Name two worthy contemporaries of Chaucer?
Ans: William Langland and John Gowar
4. ‘His lord well know he please subtly
To give and lend him of his own good
And have a thank, and yet a gown and hood’
Whom Chaucer is talking about here?
Ans: Reeve
5. Who said ‘let such old things slowly pace
And followed new-world manners in their place.’?
And followed new-world manners in their place.’?
Ans: The Monk
6. ‘Well knew he steal corn and toll thrice
And yet he had a thumb of gold’
Who is referred to in these lines from Chaucer’s Prologue?
Ans: Miller
7. Who according to Chaucer ‘Full well she sang the service divine/ Entuned in her nose full seemly’?
Ans: Prioress/ Madam Eglantine
8. ‘My wit is short, ye may wel understonde’ Who is the speaker?
Ans: Chaucer himself in The Prologue
9. ‘Embroidered was he, as it were a meadow
All full of fresh flower white and red’- Here Chaucer is referring to whom?
Ans: The Squire
10. Who represents the fading chivalry of the Middle Ages in The Prologue?
Ans: The Knight
11. ‘An outrider, who loved his venery;
A manly man, to be an abbot able.
Full many a blooded horse had he in stable:
And when he rode men might his bridle hear
A-jingling in the whistling wind as clear,
Aye, and as loud as does the chapel bell’
A manly man, to be an abbot able.
Full many a blooded horse had he in stable:
And when he rode men might his bridle hear
A-jingling in the whistling wind as clear,
Aye, and as loud as does the chapel bell’
Who is referred to here?
Ans: The Monk
12. Who represents the newly emerging chivalrous spirit in The Prologue?
Ans: The Squire
13. Who represents the age-old feudalism?
Ans: The Franklin and the Reeve. The Franklin holds land for his lord but more probably in his own right. The Reeve acts as a manager of an estate and makes full use of his power for his own right.
14. Who represents the lowest unit in the feudal hierarchy?
Ans: The Ploughman who is sincere laborer of the fields
15. How many pilgrims in Chaucer’s Prologue represent the ecclesiastical class and who are they?
Ans: Eight of pilgrims-The Prioress, her Chaplain, the Monk, the Friar, the Clerk, the Parson, the Summoner and the Pardoner
16. How do they represent the decaying religious conditions of the 14th century?
Ans: The Monk is more worldly than religious. The Prioress cares more about fine manners than about austerity. Her chaplain is a lusty fellow. The Friar is acquainted more with rich than with the poor and sick. The Summoner says a person with money need not fear the curse of the Archdeacon.
17. The exceptions are the Clerk of Oxford, a sincere seeker of knowledge and the Parson, a true well-wisher.
Who wears a coat the sleeves of which are bordered with fur of the finest quality?
Ans: The Monk
18. ‘Hir coverchiefs ful fyne weren of ground
I dorste swere they weyeden ten pound’
Whose kerchiefs are fine and weigh ten pounds?
Ans: The Wife of Bath
19. Mention the food habits of the following pilgrims: Monk, Franklin, Cook, and Summoner
Ans: The Monk loves a roast swan. The Franklin likes partridges and fish. The cook loves London ale. The Summoner loves garlic and onion.
20. Who likes a life of pleasure and is ‘Epicurus owene sone’?
Ans: The Franklin
21. ‘But for to tell you of his array,
His horse was good, but was not gay’
Explain.
Ans: The Knight had a fine horse but he was not splendidly dressed.
22. Name the pilgrims who bear the testimony to the abuses and corruptions of the church?
Ans: The Friar, the Monk and the Pardoner
23. ‘Chaucer, his description of the Parson, contrasts the piety and industry of the secular clergy with the wickedness and laziness of the religious orders or marks’. Who is the critic?
Ans: Professor Skeat
24. ‘But, Lord Christ! when that it remembers me Upon my youth, and on my jollities,
It tikleth me aboute myn herte rote.
Unto this day it dooth myn herte bote
That I have had my world as in my tyme.’
Explain these lines by Chaucer.
It tikleth me aboute myn herte rote.
Unto this day it dooth myn herte bote
That I have had my world as in my tyme.’
Explain these lines by Chaucer.
Ans: The Wife in her prologue claims that her memories of the frolicking and "jolitee" of her youth are an effective remedy ("bote") for the heart, which makes sense given her role as defender of life's pleasures. If even the memories of these pleasures can serve one well in old age, why not enjoy them in one's youth? On the other hand, the Wife's implication that her time for pleasures is over is not compatible with her stated intention to continue her lusty lifestyle into old age
25. Who is ‘as meeke as is a mayde’?
Ans: The Knight
26. Who ‘was fresshe as is the monthe of May’?
Ans: The Squire
27. Who is a true forester among the pilgrims?
Ans: The Yeoman
28. For whom the teachings of St. Maure and St. Benedict are out-of-date?
Ans: The Monk
29. ‘His bulging eyes he rolled about, and hot
They gleamed and red, like fire beneath a pot;
His boots were soft; his horse of great estate.
Now certainly he was a fine prelate:
He was not pale as some poor wasted ghost.
A fat swan loved he best of any roast.
His palfrey was as brown as is a berry.’
They gleamed and red, like fire beneath a pot;
His boots were soft; his horse of great estate.
Now certainly he was a fine prelate:
He was not pale as some poor wasted ghost.
A fat swan loved he best of any roast.
His palfrey was as brown as is a berry.’
Here Chaucer is referring to whom?
Ans: The Monk
30. Who is ‘full simple and coy’?
Ans: The Prioress
31. Who is of the view ‘Except a man's soul lie within his purse;
For in his purse the man should punished be'?
For in his purse the man should punished be'?
Ans: The Summoner
32. Who commented on Chaucer ‘..here is God’s plenty'?
Ans: Dryden
33. ‘...he added thereunto-
That, if gold rust, what shall poor iron do?
For if the priest be foul, in whom we trust,’
That, if gold rust, what shall poor iron do?
For if the priest be foul, in whom we trust,’
Who added this?
Ans: The Parson
34. ‘And holy though he was, and virtuous,
To sinners he was not impiteous,
Nor haughty in his speech, nor too divine,
But in all teaching prudent and benign.’ Who is referred to here?
To sinners he was not impiteous,
Nor haughty in his speech, nor too divine,
But in all teaching prudent and benign.’ Who is referred to here?
Ans: The Parson
35. Who had 'a fiery-red, cherubic face,
For eczema he had; his eyes were narrow
As hot he was, and lecherous, as a sparrow;
With black and scabby brows and scanty beard;
He had a face that little children feared.’ ?
For eczema he had; his eyes were narrow
As hot he was, and lecherous, as a sparrow;
With black and scabby brows and scanty beard;
He had a face that little children feared.’ ?
Ans: The Summoner
36. ‘But with these relics, when he came upon
Some simple parson, then this paragon
In that one day more money stood to gain
Than the poor dupe in two months could attain.
And thus, with flattery and suchlike japes,
He made the parson and the rest his apes.’
Some simple parson, then this paragon
In that one day more money stood to gain
Than the poor dupe in two months could attain.
And thus, with flattery and suchlike japes,
He made the parson and the rest his apes.’
Chaucer here refers to whom?
Ans: The Pardoner
37. ‘But yet, to tell the whole truth at the last,
He was, in church, a fine ecclesiast.’
He was, in church, a fine ecclesiast.’
Who is ‘he’?
Ans: The Pardoner is still better because he could sing a prayer.
38. Which character from Prologue is amoral like Falstaff and Rabelaisian before Rabelais?
Ans: The wife of Bath
39. ‘Nowhere so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he seemed bisier than he was’
Who is referred to here?
Ans: The Man of Law
40. Who said ‘The characters of Chaucer’s Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations...they are the physiognomies or lineaments of universal human life’ ?
Ans: Blake
41. ‘As meagre was his horse as is a rake,
Nor he himself too fat, I'll undertake,
But he looked hollow and went soberly.
Right threadbare was his overcoat; for he
Had got him yet no churchly benefice,
Nor was so worldly as to gain office’
Nor he himself too fat, I'll undertake,
But he looked hollow and went soberly.
Right threadbare was his overcoat; for he
Had got him yet no churchly benefice,
Nor was so worldly as to gain office’
Whose poverty and un-worldliness are refereed to here?
Ans: The Clerk
42. ‘His table, waiting in his hall alway,
Stood ready covered through the livelong day’
Stood ready covered through the livelong day’
Who is talked about here?
Ans: Franklin
43. ‘He knew well all the havens, as they were,
From Gottland to the Cape of Finisterre,
And every creek in Brittany and Spain;
His vessel had been christened Madeleine.’
From Gottland to the Cape of Finisterre,
And every creek in Brittany and Spain;
His vessel had been christened Madeleine.’
Who is referred to here?
Ans: The Shipman
44. ‘Indeed, he was a worthy man withal,
But, sooth to say, his name I can't recall’
But, sooth to say, his name I can't recall’
Whose name Chaucer can’t recall?
Ans: The Merchant
45. Where did Chaucer refer directly to the Peasant Revolt?
Ans: In his Nun’s Priest’s Tale
‘So hideous was the noise, ah bencite!
That of a truth Jack Straw, and his meinie
Not made never shoutes half so shrill,
When that they any Fleming meant to kill’
46. ‘Which, of a Sunday, she wore on her head.
Her hose were of the choicest scarlet red,
Close gartered, and her shoes were soft and new.
Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue.
She'd been respectable throughout her life,
With five churched husbands bringing joy and strife,
Not counting other company in youth;
But thereof there's no need to speak, in truth.
Three times she'd journeyed to Jerusalem;
And many a foreign stream she'd had to stem;
At Rome she'd been, and she'd been in Boulogne,
In Spain at Santiago, and at Cologne.
She could tell much of wandering by the way:
Gap-toothed was she, it is no lie to say.
Upon an ambler easily she sat,
Well wimpled, aye, and over all a hat
As broad as is a buckler or a targe;
A rug was tucked around her buttocks large,’
Her hose were of the choicest scarlet red,
Close gartered, and her shoes were soft and new.
Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue.
She'd been respectable throughout her life,
With five churched husbands bringing joy and strife,
Not counting other company in youth;
But thereof there's no need to speak, in truth.
Three times she'd journeyed to Jerusalem;
And many a foreign stream she'd had to stem;
At Rome she'd been, and she'd been in Boulogne,
In Spain at Santiago, and at Cologne.
She could tell much of wandering by the way:
Gap-toothed was she, it is no lie to say.
Upon an ambler easily she sat,
Well wimpled, aye, and over all a hat
As broad as is a buckler or a targe;
A rug was tucked around her buttocks large,’
The description refers to whom?
Ans: The Wife of Bath
47. ‘What availeth all this wit?
What? Should we speak all day Holy writ?’
Who is the speaker? And who is addressed?
Ans: The Host stops the Reeve when he starts ‘sermonising’.
48. He said: "Since I must then begin the game,
Why, welcome be the cut, and in God's name!
Now let us ride, and hearken what I say."
And at that word we rode forth on our way;
And he began to speak, with right good cheer,
His tale anon, as it is written here.’
Why, welcome be the cut, and in God's name!
Now let us ride, and hearken what I say."
And at that word we rode forth on our way;
And he began to speak, with right good cheer,
His tale anon, as it is written here.’
Who said the quoted lines? And who is the speaker
Ans: The Knight who will tell the first tale.
And the speaker is the Host. And these are concluding lines of Prologue.
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