How Is The Pardoner Characterized In This Passage

Question: In what way does the passage accurately represent real medieval pardoners?

Answer: The passage shows that pardoners were officially authorized by the Church.

Question: How is the Pardoner characterized in this passage?

Answer: The Pardoner is characterized as an effective speaker and a skilled con artist.

Question: How is the Pardoner characterized in this passage?

Answer: The Pardoner is dishonest and hypocritical.

Question: What vice is Chaucer satirizing in this passage?

Answer: greed

Question: What is satirical about this passage from the end of The Pardoner’s Tale?

Answer: The Pardoner is so greedy that he tries to extract money even from people who know his tricks.

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