FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PARDONERS TALE ??S

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PARDONERS TALE ??S

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-Guarantee passing score -18 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: in lines 112-121, what motivate the rioters to attempt to kill Death? What human characteristic is evident in this?

Answer:

rage/being drunk

Question 2: why might a story about avarice fit the Pardoner?

Answer:

because he's greedy

Question 3: what does hg try and do to the pilgrims after his tale?

Answer:

tried to see them fake relics and pardons Question 4: what news do the 3 rioters hear as they are drinking one morning? Why is it appropriate that "he was a friend of yours in days of old"?

Answer:

hand-bell clink; one of drunk friends die; used to be a friend

Question 5: what happens to their other of brotherhood?

Answer:

it was all a lie and betrayed each other (broke it) Question 6: what is the situational irony in the attitudes of the rioters and the old man toward Death?

Answer:

old man is ready to die

Question 7: what is the moral of this tale?

Answer:

do not be greedy, be honest

Question 8: what might the old man symbolize?

Answer:

death is a blessing

Question 9: what literary device is used in giving human attributes to death?

Answer:

personification

Question 10: what do the 3 rioters intend to do when they leave the tavern?

Answer:

kill death Question 11: is there any other reason why the gold is left there other than the rioters' assumption that it is Fortune?

Answer:

to trick them by death Question 12: the black plague killed about 2/5 million people in Europe from 1348-1349. Why would this tale be an especially appropriate setting for a story intended to make people repent?

Answer:

because they are scared of dying and don't want to go to hell

Question 13: what do you think Chaucer is satirizing in this tale?

Answer:

show they wanted to get everyone Question 14: what is ironic about the reason the young man gives for buying potion?

Answer:

all 3 men were "rats"

Question 15: what causes the 3 rioters to abandon their search for death?

Answer:

finds foreighs no longer killing death; greedy for gold

Question 16: Archetypal elements

Answer:

things in 3, test of morality, mysterious guide, just ending

Question 17: what does he do for a living?

Answer:

???

Question 18: In lines 122-124, is this a bond of brotherhood or something else?

Answer:

something else: they are being drunk