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| What was the name of the London tavern where the pilgrims gathered? | Tabard Inn |
| In what area of London (also home to the Globe Theatre) did the journey begin? | Southwark |
| In what month did the pilgrimage occur? | April |
| In what century is the work set? | 14th century or 1300s |
| Geoffrey Chaucer is also known as the Father of...? | English Poetry |
| What two countries/cultures outside of England influenced his writing? | France, Italy |
| The pilgrims can be classified by what three societal groups? | Feudal, Religious/Church, Professions/Trades |
| What name was given to pilgrims who had visited the Holy Land? | Palmers |
| Who is the "holy blissful martyr"? | Thomas a' Becket |
| What was the holy blissful martyr's position? | Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Who "often sat at table in the chair of honor, above all nations"? | Knight |
| Who had been in fifteen mortal battles? | Knight |
| Who was "ever honored for his noble graces"? | Knight |
| Who was "in his bearing as modest as a maid"? | Knight |
| Who was "in his bearing as modest as a maid"? | Knight |
| Who wore a "fustian tunic stained and dark"? | Knight |
| Who was only "twenty years of age," probably the youngest pilgrim? | Squire |
| Who had "locks as curly as if they had been pressed"? | Squire |
| Who could "make songs and poems and recite"? | Squire |
| Who "loved so hotly" that he slept as little as a nightingale? | Squire |
| Who was "as fresh as is the month of May"? | Squire |
| Who was "embroidered like a meadow bright and full of freshest flowers"? | Squire |
| Who sang or fluted all the day? | Squire |
| Who wore a coat and hood of green? | Yeoman |
| Who had "peacock-feathered arrows, bright and keen"? | Yeoman |
| Who "knew the whole of woodcraft up and down"? | Yeoman |
| Who wore a medal of St. Christopher? | Yeoman |
| Whose "head was like a nut"? | Yeoman |
| What was the Nun's church rank, just below the head nun in an abbey? | Prioress |
| Who would "counterfeit a courtly kind of grace?" | Nun |
| Who would weep upon seeing a mouse caught in a trap? | Nun |
| Who spoke in French, the type learned in England? | Nun |
| What was the nun's name? | Madame Eglantine |
| Whose way of smiling was "very simple and coy"? | Nun |
| Whose "forehead, certainly, was fair of spread"? | Nun |
| Who wore a cloak with "a graceful charm"? | Nun |
| Who liked the motto "Amor vincit omnia" and what does it mean? | Nun |
| Who fed little dogs "roasted flesh, or milk, or fine white bread"? | Nun |
| Who "rode the country" with hunting as his sport? | Monk |
| Who had "many a dainty horse" in his stable? | Monk |
| Who "took the modern world's more spacious way?" | Monk |
| Who wanted Austin to keep his labor to himself? | Monk |
| Who was Austin? | St. Augustine, church scholar, author of Confessions |
| Who had greyhounds "as swift as birds"? | Monk |
| Whose "head was bald and shone like looking glass"? | Monk |
| Whose eyeballs "glittered like the flames beneath a kettle"? | Monk |
| Who wore "fine grey fur, the finest in the land"? | Monk |
| Who "liked a fat swan best, and roasted whole"? | Monk |
| Who had "fixed up many a marriage," giving the young women what he could afford? | Friar |
| Who was "a Limiter, a very festive fellow"? | Friar |
| Who kept a tippet stuffed with pins and pocket-knives? | Friar |
| Who "had a special license from the Pope"? | Friar |
| Who "sang well and played the hurdy-gurdy"? | Friar |
| Who "knew the taverns well in every town and every innkeeper and barmaid" better than "lepers, beggars, and that crew"? | Friar |
| Who "romped like a puppy" to be prompt on settling days? | Friar |
| Whose name was Hubert? | Friar |
| Who was "the finest beggar of his batch"? | Friar |
| Who had "a forking beard and motley dress"? | Merchant |
| Who was "stately in administration, in loans and bargains and negotiation"? | Merchant |
| Who "so had set his wits to work, none knew he was in debt"? | Merchant |
| Who "harped on his increase of capital" in solemn tones? | Merchant |
| Who had a horse "thinner than a rake" similar to himself? | Oxford Cleric |
| Who "never spoke a word more than was need...respectful in the extreme"? | Oxford Cleric |
| Who would "gladly learn...and gladly teach"? | Oxford Cleric |
| Who "found no preferment in the church" and wouldn't search for a secular job? | Oxford Cleric |
| Who met his business associates at St. Paul's? | Sergeant at Law |
| Who was "less busy than he seemed to be"? | Sergeant at Law |
| Who knew "every statute off by rote"? | Sergeant at Law |
| "All was fee-simple to his strong digestion" describes whom? | Sergeant at Law |
| Who knew "every judgment, case and crime...recorded since King William's time"? | Sergeant at Law |
| Who was "Epicurus' very son"? | Franklin |
| Who wore "a dagger and a little purse of silk"? | Franklin |
| Who "made his household free to all the county"? | Franklin |
| For whom was sensual delight "the one true felicity in sight"? | Franklin |
| Whose home positively "snowed with meat and drink"? | Franklin |
| Who as Sheriff "checked audit, every entry"? | Frankline |
| Identify the five tradesmen by profession. | Haberdasher, Dyer, Carpenter, Weaver, Carpet-maker |
| Who "seemed a worthy burgess, fit to grace a guild-hall with a seat'? | Five Tradesmen |
| Who could "distinguish London ale by flavor"? | Cook |
| Who "had an ulcer on his knee"? | Cook |
| What is blancmange? | chicken stew |
| The summer heat has tanned whose color brown? | Skipper |
| Who knew "all the havens as they were"? | Skipper |
| Who "did not read the Bible very much"? | Doctor |
| Who was "well-versed in Aescalapius"? | Doctor |
| Who was "somewhat deaf, which was a pity"? | Wife of Bath |
| Who had "gap-teeth, set widely, truth to say'? | Wife of Bath |
| Who had "thrice been to Jerusalem"? | Wife of Bath |
| Who by the horsocope knew the powers of favorable planets? | Doctor |
| Who was "rich in holy thought and work"? | Parson |
| Who "neglected not in rain or thunder, in sickness or in grief" to call? | Parson |
| Who lived to show that "first he wrought, then he taught"? | Parson |
| Who was "never contemptuous of sinful men"? | Parson |
| Who lived in "perfect peace and charity"? | Plowman |
| Who wished to "show a fair behavior and draw men thus to Heaven and their Savior"? | Parson |
| Who "paid his tithes in full, when they were due"? | Plowman |
| Who was "an honest worker, good and true"? | Plowman |
| Who was "a great stout fellow, in brawn and bone"? | Miller |
| Who had "a wart, on which there stood a tuft of hair"? | Miller |
| Whose "mighty mouth was like a furnace door"? | Miller |
| Who "was a master-hand, at stealing grain"? | Miller |
| Who "liked to play his bagpipes, up and down?" | Miller |
| Who "used to watch the market, most precisely"? | Manciple |
| Who was illiterate but could "outpace the wisom of a heap of learned men"? | Manciple |
| Who was "old and choleric and thin"? | Reeve |
| "No auditor could gain a point" on whom? | Reeve |
| Who was a "better hand at bargains than his lord"? | Reeve |
| Who kept "a store of treasure well tucked away"? | Reeve |
| Who "rode the hindomost of our calvacade"? | Reeve |
| Who was still "a carpenter of first-rate skill"? | Reeve |
| Who had a "face on fire, like a cherubin"? | Summoner |
| Who loved garlic and onions and leeks? | Summoner |
| "Children were afraid" when what pilgrim appeared? | Summoner |
| Who would "shout and jabber as if crazy"? | Summoner |
| Who had "black scabby brows," a thin beard, and carbuncles? | Summoner |
| The Latin phrase, "Questio quid juris" was whose tag? | Summoner |
| Who was "a noble varlet and a kind one"? | Summoner |
| Who loudly sang, "Come hither, love, come home"? | Pardoner |
| Who had "hair as yellow as wax, hanging down smoothly like a hank of flax"? | Pardoner |
| Who "sewed a holy relic on his cap" and had his wallet on his lap? | Pardoner |
