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Canterbury Tales help

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English help on 5 questions? im not sure on them? can you check my answers?


10.
What is the most likely reason that Chaucer begins The Canterbury Tales’ prologue with a description of spring?
• to surprise the reader by connecting spring to the idea of a long journey
• to indicate the short period of time available to make a pilgrimage
• to establish a mood of gentle anticipation before introducing the characters
• to foreshadow the harshness of the journey the characters are about to make
11.
In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses the description of a pilgrimage primarily as _________.
• a means to structure his arguments against organized religion
• a way to stress his personal desire to spread Christianity
• a device to frame the stories of the individual characters
• a metaphor to explain how people change over time
from The Canterbury Tales: “The Pardoner’s Tale”
12.
Which line from “The Pardoner’s Tale” indicates the Pardoner’s feelings about the spiritual welfare of others?
• “… Them from it, I can bring them to repent…”
• “That’s not the counsel of my inner voice!”
• “They can go blackberrying for all I care!”
• “I take great pains, and stretching out my neck…”
13.
In “The Pardoner’s Tale,” what is ironic about the rioters’ discovery of gold in the place where they were looking for Death?
• They do not realize that the gold actually belongs to Death.
• It makes them realize that Death is not an actual person.
• They realize that they prefer Death to gold.
• Their greed over the gold leads to their actual deaths.
from The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
14.
With which of these statements does the crone in "The Wife of Bath’s Tale" save the life of the knight?
• “A woman wants… sovereignty/Over her husband as over her lover…”
• “We old, old women know a thing or two.”
• “Your life is safe; I shall make good my claim.”
• “…That dare say no to what I have to teach./Let us go … without further speech.”
15.
Based on the story Chaucer has her tell, which of these would the narrator of “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” most likely consider an ideal marriage?
• one in which the husband is completely submissive to the wife
• one in which the husband and wife are equal partners
• one in which the wife bears and raises healthy children
• one in which the wife maintains her physical beauty
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

my answers
10=d
11=d
12=c
13=a
14=b
15=d