Read the following question on "The Wife of Bath's Tale." Then choose the letter of the best answer.

Reread lines 280-401 on pages 85-87.

Before the old woman transforms herself, she

Select one:
a. convinces the knight to become a Christian.
b. torments the queen and rebukes her gentility.
c. cites the work of Roman philosophers to show her intellectual superiority.
d. makes a speech in which she tries to reform the knight's judgments and values.