These tests are intended for the use of those who are using the Learn to Read Chaucer Page (or anyone else who may find them useful). The tests for The Shipman's and Prioress's Tales concentrate on basic vocabulary. The rest are more or less randomly generated tests of the lines with page glosses in The Riverside Chaucer or The Canterbury Tales Complete. and they are therefore somewhat more difficult. See How to grade the self-tests. The first few tales are provided with tests (really checklists) on the Explanatory Notes.
FRAGMENT I
General Prologue: Test #1 Test #2 Test #3
Check Notes to General Prologue
Knight's Tale: Test #1 Test #2 Test #3 Test #4
Check Notes to Knight's Tale
Miller's Prologue and Tale: Test #1 Test #2 Test #2
The Reeve's Prologue and Tale: Test #1 Test #2
Cook's Tale: Test #1
Check Notes to Miller's Reeve's, and Cook's Tales
FRAGMENT II
Man of Law's Intro, Tale, and Epilogue: Test #1 Test #2 Test #3
Check Notes to Man of Law's Tale
FRAGMENT III
(From this point onward, only one test is provided for each tale (except for the Shipman's and Prioress's Tales; the assumption is that students' command of the language will be such that a single quiz is sufficient for diagnosis of their progress.)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue: Test
The Wife of Bath's Tale: Test
Check Notes to Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
(No further quizzes on the explanatory notes are provided; the assumption is that the reader who is this far into the tales has acquired the habit of using the glosses and notes and therefore no further tests are needed.)
The Friar's Prologue and Tale: Test
The Summoner's Prologue and Tale: Test
FRAGMENT IV
The Clerk's Prologue and Tale: Test
The Merchant's Prologue, Tale, and Epilogue: Test
FRAGMENT V
The Squire's Introduction and Tale: Test
The Franklin's Prologue and Tale: Test
FRAGMENT VI
The Physician's Tale: Test
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale: Test
FRAGMENT VII
The Shipman's Tale (basic vocabulary): Test #1 Test #2 Test #3
The Prioress's Prologue and Tale (basic vocabulary): Test #1 Test #2
The Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas: Test
[No test is set for the prose Tale of Melibee]
The Monk's Prologue and Tale: Test
The Nun's Priest's Prologue, Tale, and Epilogue: Test
FRAGMENT VIII
The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale: Test
The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale: Test
FRAGMENT IX
The Manciple's Prologue and Tale: Test
FRAGMENT X
No test is set for the Parson's Prologue (too short) and Tale (in prose) nor for Chaucer's Retractions (in prose).