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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the major point that the Third Knights wishes to relate to the audience?
(a) The King ordered them to go through with the murder.
(b) The Knights are getting nothing out of the murder.
(c) The Knights have huge stakes in the murder.
(d) The Knights are getting paid to kill Beckett.

2. What does the First Priest believe was Becket's character flaw that ultimately brought an end to his friendship with the King?
(a) Pride.
(b) Self-loathing.
(c) Cowardliness.
(d) Laziness.

3. What ruler of England does the Second Priest refer to as "the stubborn King?"
(a) Edward III.
(b) James I.
(c) Henry II.
(d) Richard I.

4. How does the Second Tempter claim real power is purchased?
(a) At price of an uncertain quantity.
(b) At price of his devotion to God.
(c) At price of a certain submission.
(d) At price of his immortal soul.

5. "The wheel" is spoken of time and time again. In one instance Becket says that "Only the fool, fixed in his folly, may think he can turn the wheel on which he turns." What is the idea of a wheel supposed to symbolize?
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) The Past.
(d) Fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Beckett believe we should celebrate martyrs?

2. What is not one of the things the Knights ask Thomas Beckett to do?

3. What doesn't the Third Priest see in "the art of temporal government?"

4. What is the best way to describe what Beckett seems to feel for his congregation?

5. What does the Fourth Knight believe was the cause of Beckett's death?

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