Question

please help with English literature?!! The Canterbury Tales?

Answer 1

5. Which of these lines from The Canterbury Tales’ “Prologue” states the purpose of the characters’
pilgrimage? (1 point)
“To ride abroad had followed chivalry…”
“To a poor Order that a man’s well shriven…”
“To arbitrate disputes on settling days…”
“To seek the holy blissful martyr, quick…”
6. How does Chaucer’s choice to set The Canterbury Tales’ “Prologue” in spring contribute to the
narrative? (1 point)
It underscores the arduous journey the characters are about to take.
It emphasizes the limited time the characters have to make their pilgrimage.
It reinforces the notion that martyrdom is something to be avoided.
It casts the idea of religious pilgrimage as a new beginning.
7. Which line from “The Pardoner’s Tale” best displays the Pardoner’s true attitude toward those who look
to him for spiritual guidance? (1 point)
“… Them from it, I can bring them to repent…”
“… A string of starving children, all agape.”
“… A livelihood. I do not preach in vain.”
“Once dead what matter how their souls may fare?”
8. In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” with which of these statements does the Knight decry his fate? (1 point)
“You’re old, and so abominably plain,/So poor… so low-bred…”
“I could set right what you suppose a blunder,/That’s if I cared to…”
“Christ wills we take our gentleness from Him…”
“But gentleness, as you will recognize,/Is not annexed… to possessions.”
9. “My love is like to ice, and I to fire;/How comes it then that this her cold so great/Is not dissolved by my so hot desire…”
In these opening lines from Spencer’s Sonnet 30, what is the speaker lamenting? (1 point)
the brevity of life
unreciprocated love
his unending poverty
his physical discomfort

Answer 2

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