Teacher’s Aid #3 ----- Character Cards
The
Knight
The
Friar
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The
Yeoman
The
Nun
(Prioress)
The
Pardoner
Wife
of
Bath
The
Miller
The
Reeve
The
Innkeeper
Question:
What is another name for the
Medieval Period?
The
Merchant
Question:
What is a Pilgrimage?
Answer: A journey to a holy place or shrine.
Answer: The Middle Ages.
Question:
The pilgrimage of Canterbury Tales
is from where to where?
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Where is Canterbury?
Answer: 65 miles southeast of London.
Answer: From London to Canterbury.
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What were the Crusades
Answer: Holy wars against the Muslims
controlling Jerusalem.
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What was the goal of the Crusades?
Answer: To free Jerusalem from the Muslims.
Question:
Who is “the Host” of The
Canterbury Tales?
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Why do the travelers tell tales?
Answer: The Innkeeper.
Answer: The one who tells the best tale will be
treated to free lodging.
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Why does the Innkeeper go along?
Answer:
To judge the tales.
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What saint’s tomb did the pilgrims
travel to see?
Answer:
Thomas À Becket.
Question:
In what decade was Canterbury
Tales written?
Answer:
1380’s.
What qualifications does the
innkeeper place on the winner?
Answer:
Whoever tells an amusing tale,
making best sense.
Question:
Who was the squire??
Answer:
The son of the Knight.
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Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Answer:
Geoffrey Chaucer.
Question:
Name the Inn where the pilgrims
meet?
Question:
What centuries are in the Middle
Ages?
Answer:
The Tabard Inn.
Answer:
Eleventh century (1040’s) to
Fifteenth (1480’s) century
Question:
Besides pilgrimages, what else
happened in the Middle Ages??
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What happened in 1066?
Answer:
Crusades, Charlemagne, Magna
Charta
Answer:
The Norman Conquest of England
Question:
Name a King of England during the
Middle Ages?
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Name another literary character of
this period?
Answer:
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Robin Hood
William the Conqueror, Richard
the Lionheart, King John
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