Question

PLEASE HELP!
1. There was a Knight, a most distinguished man, / Who from the day on which he first began / to ride abroad had followed chivalry, / Truth, honor, generousness and courtesy. (The Canterbury Tales, “The Prologue)
(1 point)
knightly way of dressing
knightly leisure activities
knightly social code
knightly travel restrictions

Answer 1

2. As for his skills in reckoning his tides, /Currents and many another risk besides, /Moons, harbors, pilots, he had such dispatch / That none from Hull to Carthage was his match. (The Canterbury Tales, “The Prologue")
(1 point)
recognizing
avoiding
sailing
calculating

3. Then he would shout and jabber as if crazy, / And wouldn’t speak a word except in Latin / When he was drunk, such tags as he was pat in; / He only had a few, say two or three, / That he had mugged up out of some decree; / No wonder, for he heard them every day. (The Canterbury Tales, “The Prologue")
(1 point)
foreign language
formal order
old book
timeless memory

4. And thus I preach against the very vice / I make my living out of—avarice. (The Canterbury Tales, “The Pardoner’s Tale")
(1 point)
greed
important edict
weakness of character
rule of law

5. If there be one among you that is willing / to have my absolution for a shilling. (The Canterbury Tales, “The Pardoner’s Tale")
(1 point)
prayer
garment
confessions
prediction
remission of sin

6. He was as good as dead / (It seems that then the statutes took that view) / But that the queen, and other ladies too, /Implored the king to excuse his grace… (The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale")
(1 point)
written laws
royal guards
stone sculptures
courtly ladies

7. For our parents nothing can we claim /Save temporal things, and these may hurt and maim. (The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale")
(1 point)
painful
sacred
secular
hereditary

8. 'Seldom arises by these slender branches / Prowess of men, for it is God, no less, / Wills us to claim of Him our gentleness. (The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale")
(1 point)
crowds
skills or expertise
holiness
incompetent

9. But since you have come here for folly, you may as well find it. (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
(1 point)
serious discussion
argument
act of foolishness
entertainment

10. And studied the young man standing there, shoulders hunched, / And considered that staunch and doughty stance he took, / Undaunted yet, and in his heart he liked it. (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
(1 point)
awkward
steadfast
ridiculous
unattractive

Answer 2

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