Chaucer and the canterbury tales: mastery test

1) which of these statements is true about the pardoner's tale?
c. it tells a moral tale that is at odds with the pardoner's own persona.

2) read the excerpt from chaucer's the canterbury tales, and then complete the sentences that follow.
but he looked hollow and went soberly.
right threadbare was his overcoat; for he
had got him yet no churchly benefice…

in this description of the [clerk], the word threadbare tells the audience that this character is [poor] . the reason for his situation is that he did not get any [income] from the catholic church.

3) what technique does chaucer use to create lively characters?
c. indirect characterization

4) match the lines from the canterbury tales to the characters they describe.

[her greatest oath was but by saint eloy! and she was known as madam eglantine.]
. [prioress]

[right threadbare was his overcoat; for he had got him yet no churchly benefice]
[he had but little gold within his coffer; but all that he might borrow from a friend]
. [clerk]
[o ride about the world, loved chivalry, truth, honour, freedom and all courtesy.]
[though so illustrious, he was very wise and bore himself as meekly as a maid. he never yet had any vileness said,]
. [knight]
[dishevelled, save for cap, his head all bare. as shiny eyes, he had as has a hare. a voice he had that bleated like a goat.]
. [pardoner]
[a lover and a lusty bachelor, with locks well curled, as if they'd laid in press]
. [squire]

5) which character in the canterbury tales would have belonged to the lowest rung in the feudal society of chaucer's time?
c. the miller