Merchant's Tale

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What ideal form of love is Chaucer parodying?
courtly love
1 of 12
May is 'simply another piece of _____' (according to Sam Brunner)
livestock
2 of 12
'Tendre youth hath wed....'
stouping age
3 of 12
Chaucer describes love as '_ _ _ _ _'
blind
4 of 12
Whose tale precedes the Merchant's?
clerk
5 of 12
Who held the most power in medieval England?
church
6 of 12
Sam Brunner describes the Merchant as a 'devious', 'secretive' and '______' narrator
unreliable
7 of 12
Marriage was a ______ transaction
financial
8 of 12
What does 'buxom' mean?
obedient
9 of 12
What derogatory animal term is the Merchant's wife labelled as?
shrew
10 of 12
What was the name of the loyal wife in the clerk's tale?
griselda
11 of 12
What critic discusses Chaucer's use of food imagery to describe women?
katy lee
12 of 12

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May is 'simply another piece of _____' (according to Sam Brunner)

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livestock

Card 3

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'Tendre youth hath wed....'

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Card 4

Front

Chaucer describes love as '_ _ _ _ _'

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Card 5

Front

Whose tale precedes the Merchant's?

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