All of the following statements are true of the Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, EXCEPT which one?

A. Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales in Latin
B. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is set around a pilgrimage, in which the pilgrims tell stories to entertain one another while traveling to a shrine in Canterbury
C. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales consists of twenty stories told by the pilgrim characters
D. While the characters in the Canterbury Tales are type characters that represent a literary cross-section of late medieval society, they are also individual personalities


Answer: A. Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales in Latin

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