choose the word or phrase that best matches the word in italics "Seeing only peril in air travel, she had no desire to board a plane"
Answer 1A: Refuge
Answer 2B: Danger
Answer 3C: Sanctum
Answer 4D: Indemnity
Answer 2B: Danger
From The Canterbury Tales: "The Prologue" Which excerpt from 'The Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales BEST indicates that the Nun is a compassionate person?
Answer 1A: "Her veil was gathered in a seemly way,/Her nose was elegant..."
Answer 2B: "And well she sang a service, with a fine/intoning through her nose..."
Answer 3C: "She used to weep if she but saw a mouse/Caught in a trap, if it were dead..."
Answer 4D: "But she could carry a morsel up and keep/ The smallest drop from falling..."
Answer 3C: "She used to weep if she but saw a mouse/Caught in a trap, if it were dead..."
From The Canterbury Tales: "The Prologue" How does the description of spring in The Canterbury Tales' prologue contribute to the narrative that follows?
Answer 1A: By connecting images of warm weather to the notion of sainthood
Answer 2B: By enticing the reader to consider the purpose of nature
Answer 3C: By explaining the effects of the weather on each character's religious views
Answer 4D: By connecting the idea of new beginnings to the desire to make pilgrimages
Answer 4D: By connecting the idea of new beginnings to the desire to make pilgrimages
From The Canterbury Tales: "The prologue" In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses the description of a pilgrimage primarily as ____
Answer 1A: A means to structure his arguments against organized religion
Answer 2B: A way to stress his personal desire to spread Christianity
Answer 3C: A device to frame the stories of the individual characters
Answer 4D: a metaphor to explain how people change over time
Answer 3C: A device to frame the stories of the individual characters
From The Canterbury tales, "The Pardoner's Tale" Which line from "The Pardoner's Tale" reveals the Pardoner's motive for preaching to the masses?
Answer 1A: "By God, it stands to reason I can strike..."
Answer 2B: "...Them from it, I can bring them to repent..."
Answer 3C: "A yokel mind loves stories from old..."
Answer 4D: "...And get their silver for the things I teach..."
Answer 4D: "...And get their silver for the things I teach..."
From The Canterbury Tales, "The Pardoner's Tale" In "The Pardoner's Tale," What is ironic about the rioters' discovery of gold in the place where they were looking for Death?
Answer 1A: They do not realize that the gold actually belongs to Death
Answer 2B: It makes them realize that Death is not an actual person
Answer 3C: They realize that they prefer Death to gold.
Answer 4D: Their greed over the gold leads to their actual deaths