| A | B |
|---|
| How does the Pardoner treat the host | mocks |
| Why do the rioters look for death? | avenge the deaths of friends |
| Death is portrayed as | actual person and price paid for greed |
| What does the servant boy tell the drunks? | people are dying from plague |
| Synonym for wise | prudent |
| synonym for remove from guilt | absolve |
| Who did the Pardoner work for? | Church |
| When the rioters murder each other rather than murder Death | situational irony |
| Prevents a fight between the Host and the Pardoner | Knight |
| Irony that Pardoner preaches against avarice | Pardoner is very greedy |
| How the story ends | All of them die |
| What the Pardoner's tale reveals about the Pardoner | He lacks morals |
| Who is willing to sell relics and pardons? | Pardoner |
| Synonym for rise above | transcend |
| Irony in old man's attitude toward death | He is looking for it; others try to avoid it |
| Synonym of opponent | adversary |
| Synonym for greed | avarice |
| saying one thing and meaning something else | verbal irony |
| Where do we find the three drunks in the beginning of the story? | In a bar/tavern |
| What do the three drunks plan to do when they hear about Death? | kill death |
| Where does the old man tell them they can find Death? | under a tree |
| What do they find under the tree? | Gold florins |
| When will they divide the treasure? | later |
| What do two of the drunks plan to do to the youngest? | Wrestle and stab him |
| What does the youngest plan to do? | poison them |
| What is the conclusion to the tale? | They kill the youngest and then the other two die from poisoned wine |
