Home › Classics › The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales escape rooms

5 self-checking escape rooms on The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, one for each section. Every answer comes from the text, so each room checks reading as well as recall, and they work with any edition. For grades 9–12, classical homeschoolers and literature classes.

No logins and nothing to install. Try the first two locks of any room free. See all the classics escape rooms.

Room by room

• The General Prologue: The Pilgrims Gather. The spring longing for pilgrimage, the meeting at an inn in Southwark, the portraits of the pilgrims from the Knight to the Pardoner, the Host's plan for a story-telling contest and the drawing of lots.
• The Knight's Tale: Rivals in the Tower. Theseus's victory over Creon, the cousins Palamon and Arcite imprisoned in Athens, their love for Emelye, Arcite's exile and return in disguise, the fight in the grove, the great tournament, the prayers to Venus, Mars and Diana, and the tale's ending.
• The Miller's and Reeve's Tales: Floods and Flour. The drunken Miller pushing in, old John the carpenter of Oxford and his clever lodger Nicholas, the prophecy of a flood, Absolon and the smith's hot blade, then the Reeve's reply about Symkyn the miller of Trumpington and two Cambridge students.
• The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale: The Queen's Question. Her many marriages, her fifth husband Jankin and his book, the pilgrims' interruptions, the knight sentenced at Arthur's court, the queen's question, the story of Midas, the old woman's answer and her bargain, and the knight's final choice.
• The Pardoner's and Nun's Priest's Tales: Greed and Flattery. The Pardoner's confession of his tricks, the three rioters of Flanders and the old man who sends them to the gold, the quarrel with the Host, then Chauntecleer, Pertelote, the dream, the fox and the great chase.