Wife of Bath
Winter Break Assignment
The text can be found on my website http://mspfotzer.weebly.com under Assignments. It is the first drop down selection.
Read the text and answer the following questions. YOU MUST IDENTIFY THE LINE IN THE TEXT WHERE YOU FOUND THE ANSWER. The first line in each answer is where you put the line number.
The Prologue:
1.) What subject does the narrator introduce as the topic of the tale? Line 6 marriage (this is an example)
2.) What personal opinions/experience does she reveal about the topic? _____
3.) Who seems to be offended by her views? _____
4.) What is the narrator's purpose in telling the tale? _____
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The Wife of Bath Tale:
5.) When King Arthur rules, the land was filled with "fairy fols." Who has replaced them? _____
6.) What is an incubus? _____
7.) What will the friar take from the women? _____
8.) What does the Knight do to the maiden? _____
9.) What was the King petitioned to do to the Knight? _____
10.) Who does the King turn the case over to? _____
11.) What question does the Queen tell the Knight he must find the answer to? _____
12.) Early on what does the Knight hear that women want? _____
13.) Why does the narrator (Wife of Bath) retell the story of Midas? _____
14.) What does the Knight see that vanishes? _____
15.) What does the Knight say to the old woman? _____
16.) What does the old woman make the Knight promise? _____
17.) What does the Knight tell the Queen women want? _____
18.) What does the old woman tell the Knight he must do? _____
19.) Why does the Knight get so upset? _____
20.) What do men fail to do? _____
21.) Where does gentility come from? _____
22.) What does the Wife of Bath say about poverty? _____
23.) What is good about poverty? _____
24.) What choices are given to the Knight by the old woman? _____
25.) What does the Knight say in response to the old woman? _____
26.) What does the Knight end up with? _____
Extra Credit: What could be a moral to this story? (EXPLAIN)
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Winter Break Assignment
The text can be found on my website http://mspfotzer.weebly.com under Assignments. It is the first drop down selection.
Read the text and answer the following questions. YOU MUST IDENTIFY THE LINE IN THE TEXT WHERE YOU FOUND THE ANSWER. The first line in each answer is where you put the line number.
The Prologue:
1.) What subject does the narrator introduce as the topic of the tale? Line 6 marriage (this is an example)
2.) What personal opinions/experience does she reveal about the topic? _____
3.) Who seems to be offended by her views? _____
4.) What is the narrator's purpose in telling the tale? _____
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The Wife of Bath Tale:
5.) When King Arthur rules, the land was filled with "fairy fols." Who has replaced them? _____
6.) What is an incubus? _____
7.) What will the friar take from the women? _____
8.) What does the Knight do to the maiden? _____
9.) What was the King petitioned to do to the Knight? _____
10.) Who does the King turn the case over to? _____
11.) What question does the Queen tell the Knight he must find the answer to? _____
12.) Early on what does the Knight hear that women want? _____
13.) Why does the narrator (Wife of Bath) retell the story of Midas? _____
14.) What does the Knight see that vanishes? _____
15.) What does the Knight say to the old woman? _____
16.) What does the old woman make the Knight promise? _____
17.) What does the Knight tell the Queen women want? _____
18.) What does the old woman tell the Knight he must do? _____
19.) Why does the Knight get so upset? _____
20.) What do men fail to do? _____
21.) Where does gentility come from? _____
22.) What does the Wife of Bath say about poverty? _____
23.) What is good about poverty? _____
24.) What choices are given to the Knight by the old woman? _____
25.) What does the Knight say in response to the old woman? _____
26.) What does the Knight end up with? _____
Extra Credit: What could be a moral to this story? (EXPLAIN)
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