Your question is incomplete because you have not provided the excerpt or the options. The complete question is as follows:
Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
There came at nightfall to that hostelry
Some nine and twenty in a company
Of sundry persons who had chanced to fall
In fellowship, and pilgrims were they all
That toward Canterbury town would ride. (The Canterbury Tales; "General Prologue," lines 23-27)
Based on its context in the description of the pilgrims, what does the narrator mean by hostelry?
group
inn
fountain
stable
Answer:
inn
Explanation:
In "The Canterbury Tales," the author Geoffrey Chaucer makes use of the word <em>hostelry </em>to indicate that a diverse group of pilgrims arrives at an establishment which provides food, drink and accommodation, particularly for travelers. Thus, in the evening the pigrims stop at an inn in Southwark before they continue their journey to Canterbury.
