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Canterbury Tales Review
College Prep English Four
Marina High School
Across
1. “Pleasant and friendly in her ways, and straining / To counterfeit a courtly kind of grace.”
6. Who is almost killed because he listened to flattery?
7. “…had hair as yellow as wax / hanging down smoothly like a hank of flax.” “His chin no beard had harboured, nor would harbour.” “I judged him a gelding or a mare.”
8. What language was the _Canterbury Tales_ written in originally?
9. Which pilgrim works hard, pays his tithes, and smells like poo?
10. “He knew the whole of woodcraft up and down”
11. The knight in the Wife of Bath's tale discovers that women really want power over what?
15. “He knew of every judgment, case and crime / Ever recorded since King William’s time.”
17. Who has yellow, stringy hair?
18. “His eyes were narrow/ He was hot and lecherous as a sparrow. / Black scabby brows he had, and a thin beard.”
20. Which pilgrim is in cahoots with apothecaries to sell drugs people don't really need?
22. The Pardoner reveals himself to be a ______ in his prologue.
23. “All caterers might follow his example, / In buying victuals; he was never rash / Whether he bought on credit or paid cash.”
24. Who like to eat swan and hunt?
25. “A most distinguished man,” “He was of sovereign value in all eyes,” yet he was “modest as a maid.”
27. Who is a wrangler and buffoon?
28. “Broad, knotty adn short-shouldered, he would boast / He could heave the door off hinge and post. / He had a store of tavern stories, filthy in the main.”
30. Whose horse is starving because he spends all his money on books?
36. “He could make good thick soup and bake a tasty pie / What a pity, so it seemed to me / That he should have an ulcer on his knee.”
37. What punishment does Becket inflict on a man guilty of murdering a priest?
40. Who is named “Hubert”?
42. Who likes to sing, flute, and write poetry?
43. Which pilgriim proposes the idea of telling stories?
44. What is the Miller’s prized possesion?
45. What innovative verse form did the author use in _The Canterbury Tales_?
50. The rooster’s dream of danger in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale is an example of what literary device?
51. Who is the Parson’s brother?
54. What does the Pardoner preach against?
55. Who is the king that had Becket murdered?
57. Which pilgrim is described as very loud, with a mouth like a furnace, and a hairy wart on his nose?
58. During the Medieval Period, the Archbishop of _____ was in charge of all churches in England.
59. Which pilgrim is in debt but hides it very well?
60. “He was expert at dabbling in exchanges…none knew he was in debt.”
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1. “He was rich in holy thought and work.”
2. “Singing he was, or fluting all the day; / He was as fresh as is the month of May.
3. Which pilgrim owns “The Maudelayne”?
4. Who is the woodsman?
5. “He did not rate that text at a plucked hen / Which says that hunters are not holy men.”
12. What technological device did the Normans have that helped them win the Battle of Hastings?
13. “He was Epicurius very son / In whose opinion sensual delight / was the one true felicity in sight.”
14. Which pilgrim is in charge of purchasing supplies and provisions for a school?
15. “Children were afraid when he appeared… / Garlic he loved, and onions too, and leeks” but nothing could cure the pimples on his cheeks.
16. According to the opening lines of _The Canterbury Tales_, what did middle age pilgrims hope to receive in Canterbury?
19. Which pilgrim is an expert on legal writings?
21. Thomas Becket held what government office before becoming bishop?
26. Which pilgrim has acne so bad it scares small children?
29. Who seems to care more for little animals than for humans?
31. Which pilgrim is the epicure?
32. Whose shrine do the pilgrims want to visit?
33. Which pilgrim is of the highest ranking class?
34. “No bailiff, serf, or herdsman dared to kick, / He knew their dodges, knew their every trick; / Feared like the plague he was by those beneath.”
35. Which pilgrim likes to wear red, laugh, and chat?
38. In the Pardoner's Tale, the boys find the thing they are looking for under what?
39. Which pilgrim speaks French in a decidedly English style?
41. “…he had a hollow look, a sober stare; / The thread upon his overcoat was bare.”
46. Who may have embezzled from his master’s estate?
47. At what place in London do the pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury?
48. Which pilgrim had a sore on his knee?
49. In which month does the pilgrimage take place?
50. How many husbands has the Wife of Bath had?
52. Who is the king in The Wife of Bath’s Tale?
53. “Yet he was rather close as to expenses / And kept the gold he won in pestilences.”
56. “Sweetly he heard his penitents at shrift / With pleasant absolution, for a gift”