Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will meet the Theban Knights, Palamon and Arcita, and discover their fate after their battle with Duke Theseus.

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10 Questions

Reviewing your learning
Q2.
A story within a story is known as ...
Correct answer: A frame narrative
A substory
An epic poem
Heroic Couplets
Q3.
Five pairs of syllables in a line of poetry is known as ...
Heroic Couplets
Correct answer: Iambic Pentameter
Iambic Quatrameter
Rhyming Couplets
Q4.
When a line of iambic pentameter rhymes with the next line of iambic pentameter, it is known as ...
A frame narrative
Blank Verse
Free Verse
Correct answer: Heroic Couplets
What have we learned this lesson?
Q6.
The Knight tells his tale first because ...
He boasts of how good a storyteller he is.
He is the bravest and most noble pilgrim
He is the most important pilgrim
Correct answer: He loses a competition to see who goes first
Q7.
Who normally follows a code of chivalry?
Kings
Correct answer: Knights
Women
Writers
Q8.
The chivalric code prizes which three things above all else?
Death, honour and glory
Love, battle and marriage
Correct answer: Religion, glory and honouring women
Roman Gods, Greek Gods and mythical creatures
Q9.
King Creon was not following the Chivalric code because ...
He captured Hippolyta in battle
He killed the mourning women's husbands
Correct answer: He refused to return the mourning women's husband's bodies after the battle
He would not fight Theseus in open battle
Q10.
Duke Theseus behaves in a chivalric way when because ...
Correct answer: He immediately does as the mourning women ask, and fights Creon in open battle
He killed the minotaur
He marries Hippolyta after capturing her in battle
He prizes victory in battle above all else

8 Questions

Reviewing your learning
Q2.
What characteristic is a knight showing when they prize religion, glory and honour women?
Correct answer: Chivalry
Heroism
Iambics
Knighthood
Q3.
Theseus behaves in a chivalrous way when he ...
Correct answer: Battles Creon on behalf of the mourning women
Brings Emily with him to Athens
Captures Hippolyta
Celebrates his victory
Q4.
The two Theban Princes are called ...
Geoffrey and Chaucer
Hippolyta and Emily
Correct answer: Palamon and Arcita
Theseus and Creon
Q5.
The Princes are found injured, by ...
Creon
Correct answer: Scavengers
The mourning women
Theseus
Q6.
Theseus saves Palamon and Arcita's lives and then ...
Allows them to go free
executes them
Correct answer: Keeps them as prisoners in Athens
Makes them vow never to fight against him
Q7.
What is a ransom?
Correct answer: Money that is given to free a prisoner
Money that is given to pay for better food and luxuries in prison
Money that is paid to a prisoner's family
Q8.
Why are Palamon and Arcita in 'anguish and distress'?
Correct answer: Because Theseus will not accept a ransom and is keeping them in prison
Because they can't afford a ransom
Because they lost the battle
Because they were severely hurt

Lesson appears in

UnitEnglish / The Canterbury Tales: 'The Knight's Tale', Chaucer

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