"The Nun's Priest's Tale" questions

Analyze "The Nun's Priest's Tale" with fun questions on characters and motifs!

Match the quotation to the explanation in "Modern English". Pertelote "said, 'O dearest heart, / What's ailing you? Why do you groan and start? / Fie, what a sleeper!' " Pertelote is asking Chanticleer what is wrong because he was groaning in his sleep. "Worms for a day or two I'll have to give / As a digestive, then your laxative." Pertelote wants to give Chanticleer worms and laxatives to prevent bad dreams. "This blessed widow and her daughters two / Heard all these hens in clamor and halloo / a rushing to the door at all this shrieking" The widow and her daughters heard the noise that the hens were making and went out to see the issue. There are many motifs in "The Nun's Priest's Tale." Sort the six quotes into their motif category to begin thinking about their deeper meanings. Chivalry "She with the loveliest dyes upon her throat / Was known as gracious Lady Pertelote." "Thus royal as a prince who strides his hall / Leave we this Chanticleer engaged on feeding" Pride "But certainly there's no comparison / Between the subtlety of such... / Oh, for charity of heart, / Can you not emulate your sire and sing?" Chanticleer "said, 'Sir Fox, if I were you, as God's / My witness, I would round upon these clods / And shout, "Turn back, you saucy bumpkins all!"'" View of Women "For when I see the beauty of your face, / ... All thought of terror and confusion dies. / For it's a certain creed I know, / ... 'Woman is man's delight and all his bliss.'" "O woman's counsel is so often cold! / A woman's counsel brought us first to woe. / Made Adam out of Paradise to go" "All that he sang came welling from his soul / And how he put his voice under control! / The pains he took to keep his eyes tight shut / In concentration.../ The slender neck stretched out, the delicate beak! / No singer could approach him in technique."Which of the following accurately explains the quotation above? The widow is bragging about Chanticleer's crowing technique to her neighbors. She thinks he is the best rooster in the county. Pertelote is telling Chanticleer that a rooster from a nearby farm crows better than him. The fox is describing how Chanticleer's father crowed to Chanticleer so that he will close his eyes and stretch out his own neck.