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  Which of these is not included in the Canterbury Tales?Geoffrey Chaucer see if you know the answer
Answered: 235 times
Correct: 95 times (27.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 140 times (41.1%)
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  Which one of these tales is a story of heroic love and a tournament?
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 5068 times
Correct: 4464 times (66.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 604 times (8.9%)
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  In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the character of Chanticleer is a? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 2494 times (47.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 1512 times (29.0%)
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  Why are Chaucer's characters telling the stories of The Canterbury Tales? see if you know the answer
Answered: 784 times
Correct: 711 times (79.3%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 73 times (8.1%)
Skipped: 113 times (12.6%)
  Which two characters of Chaucers The Canterbury Tales are described as "birds...of the same feather"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 578 times
Correct: 237 times (26.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 341 times (37.5%)
Skipped: 331 times (36.4%)
  How many female characters are in "The Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 64 times (19.7%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 171 times (52.6%)
Skipped: 90 times (27.7%)
  Which of the "religious" characters from Chacer's The Canterbury Tales is actually a good, pious man who practices what he preaches? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 208 times (23.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 371 times (42.5%)
Skipped: 293 times (33.6%)
  In "The Nun's Priest's Tale," of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, what is Chanticleer? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 434 times (50.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 137 times (16.0%)
Skipped: 285 times (33.3%)
  What type of story is "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 135 times (15.5%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 394 times (45.2%)
Skipped: 343 times (39.3%)
  What, essentially, is the moral of "The Nun's Priest's Tale" of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 211 times (24.6%)
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  If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry entitled "The Cat's Tale?"

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Difficulty: medium
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  If cats could write poetry, in Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse, whose cat might have submitted an entry asking the "heavenly Mews" to sing

"Of cats' first disobedience, and the height
Of that forbidden tree whose doom'd ascent
Brought man into the world to help us down
And made us subject to his moods and whims?" 		see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: medium
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Skipped: 70 times (26.9%)
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." "A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness." He was an English poet who became one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement during the early nineteenth century. He died in 1821 at the age of 25 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome." "Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream," Who was he? "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
He was an English poet who became one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement during the early nineteenth century. He died in 1821 at the age of 25 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome."
"Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream," Who was he? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 167 times
Correct: 135 times (65.9%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 32 times (15.6%)
Skipped: 38 times (18.5%)
  What word, used by Geoffrey Chaucer, has only been seen in print once? see if you know the answer
Answered: 318 times
Correct: 204 times (33.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 114 times (18.9%)
Skipped: 286 times (47.4%)
  In Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," which traveller tells the story of a knight of King Arthur's court who marries an old hag? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 484 times (23.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 661 times (32.0%)
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In Kafka's Soup, which Author is not mentioned? 		see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: very difficult
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  From the novel Katherine by Anya Seton her sister Phillippa de Roet married what famous author and poet? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: medium
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  From which author’s work did William Thackeray derive the title of his novel Vanity Fair?
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Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 63 times (32.6%)
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  From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, which one of these tales is a sermon? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 721 times (49.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 309 times (21.2%)
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  The Canterbury Tales
From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer:

"Whilom, ther was dwelling at Oxenforde
A riche gnof that gestes heeld to boorde,
And of his craft he was a carpenter."

This is the start to what pilgrim's tale? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 550 times
Correct: 328 times (36.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 222 times (24.9%)
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  The Canterbury Tales

From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer:

"In Flandres whilom was a compaignye
Of yonge folk that haunteden folye-
as riot, hasard, stewes, and tavernes,
Wher as with harpes, lutes, and giternes
They daunce and playen at dees bothe day and night..."

This is the start of which Pilgrim's tale? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 483 times
Correct: 248 times (28.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 235 times (27.1%)
Skipped: 385 times (44.4%)
  Who are the female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales? see if you know the answer
Answered: 617 times
Correct: 432 times (51.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 185 times (22.1%)
Skipped: 221 times (26.4%)
  When in April the sweet showers fall
That pierce March's drought to the root and all

-- and a warm wind is blowing, the sun and the birds are out again, and there are new leaves all over the trees --

then folk do long to do what? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 107 times
Correct: 70 times (50.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 37 times (26.4%)
Skipped: 33 times (23.6%)
  This literary character has been married to five men and is now on a pilgrimage, perhaps in search of a sixth. She tells a story to her companions about a knight who learns that all women desire to have mastery over their husbands, but she herself admits that her favorite husband actually beat her so that she's deaf in one ear. see if you know the answer
Answered: 679 times
Correct: 611 times (77.8%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 68 times (8.7%)
Skipped: 106 times (13.5%)
  In The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, ___________________tells a bawdy story in which an amorous student, Absalom,is humiliated by Alison, the object of his affections, and takes revenge upon his rival, Nicholas. see if you know the answer
Answered: 510 times
Correct: 241 times (32.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 269 times (36.4%)
Skipped: 230 times (31.1%)
  In Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, three ruffian bar-flies set out half-drunk to "kill Death" because, with the Black Death raging, Death has killed so many of their friends. Instead of finding a character named "Death", they do which of the following?

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 542 times
Correct: 460 times (62.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 82 times (11.1%)
Skipped: 194 times (26.4%)
  In terms of structure, premise, and type of narrative, which of the following is the odd one out? see if you know the answer
Answered: 94 times
Correct: 50 times (36.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 44 times (31.7%)
Skipped: 45 times (32.4%)
  One of the major literary voices of the late Middle Ages/early Renaissance, and the first woman to earn a living as a writer, Christine de Pizan once wrote a series of letters to protest against one of the most popular books of her age, whose portrayal of women she considered profoundly offensive and misogynistic. Which was the book? see if you know the answer
Answered: 97 times
Correct: 33 times (24.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 64 times (46.7%)
Skipped: 40 times (29.2%)
  What does Geoffrey Chaucer have in common with the Battle of Agincourt? see if you know the answer
Answered: 36 times
Correct: 17 times (26.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 19 times (29.7%)
Skipped: 28 times (43.8%)

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