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- 1. Multiple ChoiceThe moral of "The Pardoner's Tale"friends can never be trustedgreed is the source of all evila promise is a promise
- 2. Multiple ChoiceChaucer uses the pilgrimage to Canterbury primarily as a device toemphasize the characters' religious beliefsFrame the story told by individual charactersDescribe the difficulties of medieval life
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhat is ironic about the pledge the rioters make in the following lines from “The Pardoner’s Tale”?
They made their bargain, swore with appetite./ These three, to live and die for one another/
As brother-born might swear to his born brother.They have only just met that morningThey don't realize that death is listening to them.They later plot to kill one another over the gold. - 4. Multiple Choice
When analyzing “The Pardoner’s Tale” as an allegory, the rioters would represent which of these qualities?
greed and homicide
fame and fortune
old age and death
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat becomes clearer when reading the following passage from “The Pardoner’s Tale”?
...if it be your design/
To find out Death, turn up this crooked way/
Towards that grove. I left him there today/
Under a tree, and there you’ll find him waiting.The plague will kill the three rioters before the make it to the tree.The old man is pointing the three rioters towards their own deaths.The three rioters will avoid deat - 6. Multiple ChoiceIn what way is the old man correct in saying they will find death under the tree?death appears as a skeleton under the treethe gold under the tree leads to deaththe coffin is buried under the tree
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is NOT a sin committed by the rioters?greedmurdertheft
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following was NOT a character in "The Pardoner's Tale?"three riotersthe pardonerthe apothecary
- 9. Multiple ChoiceHow does "The Pardoner's Tale" have a just ending?The old man becomes deathNo one gets greedy and keeps the goldthe rioters die in the end because of greed
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWho fulfills the role of the mysterious guide in "The Pardoner's Tale?"the pardonerthe old manthe apothecary
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat is ironic about the Pardoner telling a moral tale of greed being the root of all evil?the pardoner despises greedy peoplethe pardoner himself is greedythe pardoner doesn't accept money
- 12. Multiple ChoiceAt the beginning of "The Pardoner's Tale," we find the three "rioters"Under a treeIn a tavernIn a hotelBeside a road
- 13. Multiple ChoiceIt is fitting that the Pardoner relates this grim tale because he, of all the pilgrims,has the greatest fear of dying violently on the pilgrimagehas just witnessed such greed and how it affects peopleis just as greedy for money as the subject of his taleis a holy man who does not care for the things of this world
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhat is avarice?greedterrorgolddishonesty
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhat terrible news do the three rioters hear at the tavern?an old man has diedthe fourth rioter has been arrestedone of their friends has diedDeath had died
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhat does the youngest rioter plan to do to the other two?drown them in a lakeshoot thempoison themstab them
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhat do the two older rioters plan to do to the younger one?stab himshoot himpoison himdrown him
- 18. Multiple ChoiceIn "The Pardoner's Tale" what do the young men find when they go looking for death?Deatha pile of gold coins under a treean old mantheir dead friend
- 19. Multiple ChoiceWhat could be a theme of "The Pardoner's Tale"?Love endures all things.The love of money is the root of all evil.Old men die soon.Drunkenness leads to death.
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWho is an allegorical figure in "The Pardoner's Tale"?the old manthe three riotersDeaththe gold coins
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