FranklinÕs Tale:
No thinksheet. Quiz from the Franklin's Tale.
1. What is the relationship between Dorigen and her husband, Averagus? What type of marriage do they have?
2. How does Dorigen
come to make her promise to Aurelius?
What does she promise?
3.What
is a Franklin? What is the
relationship between teller and tale?
4.How
is this tale part of the Òmarriage groupÓ? How does it ÒquitÓ earlier tales?
5.What
is ÒgentilesseÓ? How is it defined in the FranklinÕs tale, the Wife of BathÕs
Tale, the lyric by Chaucer?
6.The
Franklin asks which of the characters in the story is the most ÒfreeÓ or
generous? (line
1622). What do you think? Back up your argument with specific
details from the text.