SinnreichLeviQuestions

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Prof. Sinnreich-Levi's Study Guide Questions

The following questions and study pointers are derived from the PowerPoint slides I use in my classes and make available to students via WebCT. Students at Stevens will notice that I have removed some content from each set of questions -- information about sources and analogs, and some other informational comments -- since the purpose of posting these questions to the wiki is to have students construct their own study guides. Follow the links below to questions keyed to all the Canterbury Tales as well as some other Chaucerian works. Apologies to the wiki community for the late posting: some personal problems took all my free time so far this semester. I wanted to clean up the formatting and make all the pages parallel for structure and format, but 1/2 the semester got away from me, and I chose getting the material posted over making it pretty. Mea culpa.

For all the tales, students should comment on the relationship between the teller and the tale, and sniff out sources and analogs. Also, if there is a remarkable use of rhyme forms, point that out. Which tales are in prose and why? What genre is the tale?