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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Becket say saved him from the wrath of his enemies?
(a) John, the Dean of Salisbury.
(b) The Pope.
(c) King Henry II.
(d) The King of France.

2. How do the priests finally get Beckett to go to the altar?
(a) They plead with him
(b) They leave him.
(c) They force him.
(d) The persuade him.

3. What is the first idea that Becket relates to his audience and what does he insist that the Chorus "know and do not know?"
(a) The world is suffering and they are the world.
(b) Life is suffering and suffering is death.
(c) Action is suffering and suffering is action.
(d) Suffering is everything and everything is suffering.

4. In what city of England does the story take place?
(a) York.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Canterbury.
(d) London.

5. What is one way that Beckett defines peace?
(a) The entire world at peace with no war in sight.
(b) The kingdom of England at peace with its neighbors.
(c) The Pope at peace with the King.
(d) The people of Canterbury at peace with their fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beckett call his congregation?

2. Why might the public react this way?

3. Where does Part II take place?

4. Why does Beckett believe the thought of the angels bringing peace is strange?

5. How does Thomas Beckett's thought end?: "If the Archbishop cannot trust the Throne/ He has good cause to trust none but _____________"

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