Here are a list of subjects, a sample of the Explanatory Notes for The Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tale in The Canterbury Tales Complete and The Riverside Chaucer. Jot down a brief explanation of each of the following terms; then check your answers against the notes cited in parentheses at the end of each entry.

1)      fabliaux (see Expl. Note, p. 372) 

2)      a legende and a life (I.3141)

3)      Almageste (I.3208)

4)      clerk (see Expl. Notes, p. 344-45)

5)      Catoun (or Cato) (I.3227). 

6)      lemman (I.3726).

7)      Absolon (I.3312-38).

8)      Herodes (I.3384)

9)      Noah's flood (I.3538-43).

10)      The Northern Dialect (I.4022). 

11)      sententia (I. 4320-21)

12)      compline (I.4171).

13)      the thridde cok (I.4233)

14)      wilde fyr (I.4172, III.373).

15)      Chepe (I.4377)

If you get twelve or more of these right, you have done well; if you got less than that, you should probably browse through those notes once more.