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The Wife of Bath's Tale from The Canterbury Tales
Recall the vents in the selection. Then answer each question in phrases or sentences.
1. What crime does the knight commit, and what dos the queen require of him to save himself from being beheaded?
2. What deal does the knight make with the old woman he meets, and how does he fulfill his bargain with her?
3. What are the knight's reasons for not being able to love his new wife?
4. What choice does the knight's wife give him?
5. How is the old woman changed at the end of the story?

Respuesta :

1.The knight has stolen the virtue of a maiden. To live, he must answer the question, "what is the thing that most women desire?" He has a year and a day to find the answer.
2.  In exchange for the correct answer to the queen's question, the knight will do whatever the old women asks of him. To fulfill the bargain, he marries her, because that is her demand.
3.He says she is old, plain, poor, and low bred, meaning not of "gentle birth" or nobility.
4.She says he can choose to have old, ugly, but loyal until she dies or he can have her young and pretty and take his chances of her loyalty.
5.She transforms her self into a young and lovely women.

Answer:

1.The knight has stolen the virtue of a maiden. To live, he must answer the question, "what is the thing that most women desire?" He has a year and a day to find the answer.

2.  In exchange for the correct answer to the queen's question, the knight will do whatever the old women asks of him. To fulfill the bargain, he marries her, because that is her demand.

3.He says she is old, plain, poor, and low bred, meaning not of "gentle birth" or nobility.

4.She says he can choose to have old, ugly, but loyal until she dies or he can have her young and pretty and take his chances of her loyalty.

5.She transforms her self into a young and lovely women.

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