Questions for Piers Plowman
1. Who is Truth? What evidence allows you to say this?

2. How does one find Truth according to Piers?

3. What is happening in lines 630 to 642, p265?

4. What does Piers' reply to the Knight show about Langland's attitude toward hierarchical notions in his culture?

5. How does Piers relate to beggars as he plows his half-acre?

6. How does the knight fail Piers and what is Piers response?

7. What lessons on eating does Hunger teach Piers?

8. How effective is Piers' use of Hunger to get the folk to work?

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9. How is Piers present in Passus 18?

10. How closely does the Passus recount the crucifixion?

11. The footnote on p. 275 says that Langland's anti-semitism may not be as bad as it first appears. How does Langland possibly qualify his condemnation of the Jews?

12. What religious themes that we've already encountered in our study of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval literature also appear at the beginning of Piers Plowman?