Across
- 3. A story told to illustrate a moral lesson
- 4. The religious figure accused of greed and corruption in Chaucer’s Prologue
- 6. What the three rioters go searching for in The Pardoner’s Tale
- 9. The mysterious figure who directs the rioters to the tree
- 10. The root of all evil, according to the Pardoner’s moral
- 13. The items the Pardoner sells for forgiveness
- 16. What transforms the old woman into a beautiful and faithful wife
- 20. What the Wife of Bath says women most desire
- 21. The pilgrim who proposes the storytelling contest
- 22. A corrupt churchman who sells fake relics and indulgences
- 23. The model clergyman who lives by Christ’s teachings
- 24. The sin the Pardoner preaches against but commits himself
Down
- 1. The author of The Canterbury Tales
- 2. The old woman who gives the knight the answer in The Wife of Bath’s Tale
- 5. The treasure that leads to the rioters’ deaths
- 6. The poet mentioned by the Wife of Bath when she speaks of gentility
- 7. The frame narrative journey to the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket
- 8. The first pilgrim described; represents chivalry and honor
- 11. The virtue the knight earns from his wife at the end
- 12. The man who must discover what women most desire
- 14. The pilgrimage destination in The Canterbury Tales
- 15. The prize promised for the best story
- 17. The king in whose court The Wife of Bath’s Tale begins
- 18. The inn where the pilgrims gather before their journey
- 19. The religious leader who licensed pardoners to sell indulgences