Question
This collection inspired a project by David Herd that described the stories of refugees stuck in British immigration detention. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this collection whose stories like “The Knight’s Tale” and “The Miller’s Tale” inspired Herd’s stories like “The Lorry Driver’s Tale” and “The Smuggled Person’s Tale.”
ANSWER: The Canterbury Tales
[10h] In the #28for28 (“hashtag 28 for 28”) project, this author read “The Arriver’s Tale.” The gardener Mzee Hamdani comforts Yusuf, who realizes he is a slave owned by Uncle Aziz in this author’s novel Paradise.
ANSWER: Abdulrazak Gurnah
[10m] Jeremy Irons narrated this section of the #28for28 project. Chaucer described April “[piercing] the drought of March to the root” in this section in which the Host proposes a contest at the Tabard Inn.
ANSWER: prologue [accept the General Prologue; prompt on introduction or first part]
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