Q1. How is the wife described in the General Prologue? Discuss the significance of her clothing and her past foreign adventures.
Q2. The prologue to the wife's tale takes an autobiographical form where she justifies her past actions in life and speaks of her many marital unions. How does she justify her actions and what point, do you believe, is she trying to make to the group of predominantly male pilgrims in her company?
Q3. "Wommen desiren to have sovereyntee / As well over hir housbond as hir love, / And for to been in maistrie hym above. / This is your mooste desir, thogh ye me kille." Is the knight's answer (and moreover the supply of this answer by the "foul wight" to the knight) a critique of the antifeminist movement or a statement of advocacy?
Q4. Discuss the significance of the knight's reward for agreeing to "wise governance." How does this reward fit in with the original crime that the knight perpetrated?
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