Q22: Who wrote 

The Canterbury Tales and in which year?

Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales sometimes around
1387 A., the uncompleted manuscript was published in 1400.
Q23: In The Canterbury Tales, pilgrims were going to whose shrine?
Answer: St. Thomas a Becket
Q24: How many people were going on the pilgrimage to Canterbury?
Answer: 30 (Thirty)
Q25: Who told the first tale?
Answer: The Knight
Q26: How many tales will each pilgrim tell on the way?
Answer: 4 (four)
Q27: What is the name of the host who organized the pilgrimage?
Answer: Harry Bailey
Q28: How did Harry decide who would be the first to tell the tale?
Answer: By drawing Straws
Q29: What is the name of the inn where the narrator meets all of the
pilgrims?
Answer: The Tabard Inn
Q30: The Canterbury Tales consists of 22 complete stories, but how many
were originally planned?
Answer: 120 (one hundred and twenty)
Q31: How many tales did Geoffrey Chaucer complete before he died?
Answer: 24 (Twenty four)
Q32: Who is described as “an unmarried maiden”?
Answer: Knight
Q33: Who was wearing a jupon (Jacket) of fustian cloth?
Answer: Knight
Q34: How the Square is mentioned?
Answer: He was as fresh as the month of May and a lusty bachelor.
Q35: Which character was the Nun?
Answer: Prioress
Q36: Whose house was always full of food and wine?
Answer: Frankeleyn (Franklin)
Q37: Who was deaf and had five husbands?
Answer: Wyf of Bathe ( The Lady of Bath)
Q38: Children were afraid of which character because of his appearance?
Answer: Somnour (Summoner)
Q39: Which character was known as Madam Eglantine?
Answer: Prioress
Q40: “Avarice is the root of all evils”, whose story was holding this moral?
Answer: The Pardoner
Q41: Who told the tale of Carpenter?
Answer: The Miller
Q42: Who in rage tells the story about a Miller?
Answer: Reeve who was once a carpenter got offended by Miller’s tale and in
rage, he tells the story of a Miller called Simpkin.
Q43: Who tells the story of a white crow?
Answer: The Manciple tells the story of a white crow whose owner in fury
plucks all the feathers of the crow and threw it “unto the devil” and this is the
reason crows are now black.
Q44: Who tells the tale of seven deadly sins?
Answer: Parson talks about seven deadly sins including Pride, Envy, Anger,
Sloth, Avarice, Gluttony, Lechery or lust.
Q45: Who tells the tale about three men seeking death?
Answer: Pardoner
Q46: Which instrument was Miller playing when they left the town?
Answer: Bagpipes
Q47: Which of the following Geoffrey Chaucer’s tale is in Prose?
Answer: The Parson’s tale
Q48: Which of the pilgrim women was widowed?
Answer: Wife of Bathe
Q49: Who was selling the fake relics?
Answer: The Pardoner
Q50: Who is presented as the most honest out of all Geoffrey Chaucer’s
pilgrims?
Answer: The Parson
Q51: Who is described as the immoral, lecherous drunk?
Answer: The Summoner
Q52: Geoffrey Chaucer character Franklin is guilty of which sin?
Answer: Franklin is guilty of Gluttony
Q53: There is a rooster in the tale of Nun about Priest, what is the rooster
name?
Answer: Chanticleer
Q54: How Miller’s mouth is described in The Canterbury Tales?
Answer: Miller’s mouth is described that “it was as big as a furnace”.
Q55: How Franklin beard is described in The Canterbury Tales?
Answer: Franklin beard is described as it was like a forked and “White as
daisy”.
Q56: How Pardoner’s hair is described in The Canterbury Tales?
Answer: The Pardoner’s hair were described “as yellow as wex”.
Q57: The Canterbury Tales has many elements in common with an Italian
poet work, what is the name of the poet?
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer was greatly influenced by Italian poet
Boccaccio, The Canterbury Tales has many elements in common with
Boccaccio’s Decameron.
Q58: In which century The Canterbury Tales is set?
Answer: The Canterbury Tales is set in the fourteenth century London.
Q59: What is “Beast Fable” and in which tale Geoffrey Chaucer used
in The Canterbury Tales?
Answer: Beast Fable is a kind of Animal Tale, in which animal characters are
presented as having human feelings and Chaucer used it in “The Nun’s Priest’s
Tale”.
Q60: Who called Prologue to The Canterbury Tales “The Prologue to
modern fiction and why?
Answer: Henry Wadsworth Long an American poet called it the “Prologue to
modern fiction” because of its Narrative unity.

Beside this, what are the social classes in the Canterbury Tales?
The five groups were Royalty, Nobility, Church, Merchants, and Peasantry.
However, the nobility and clergy were often interchangeable. The merchant is
portrayed as a fashionista that is married to who is described as a shrewish
woman and regrets it greatly in The Canterbury Tales.
Additionally, what social class is the Miller in The Canterbury
Tales? The Miller. “Estates”: Social class: Medieval England divided society
into three classes or “estates”: Nobility (rulers and land owners), Clergy,
Laborers*. The Knight tells the first tale – because he is of the highest estate.
In respect to this, what social class is the merchant in Canterbury Tales?
Clergy: monk, friar, prioress, parson summoner, pardoner ? Middle Class:
Franklin, Reeve, doctor, oxford student, wife of Bath, sergeant at law ?
Trade Class: guildsmen, cook, miller, host, manciple, merchant.
What social class is the Franklin in Canterbury Tales?
middle class
What were the three classes of the feudal system?
A feudal society has three distinct social classes: a king, a noble class (which
could include nobles, priests, and princes) and a peasant class. Historically, the
king owned all the available land, and he portioned out that land to his nobles
for their use. The nobles, in turn, rented out their land to peasants.