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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What image does the Chorus keep referring to in their speech as Thomas Beckett is killed?
(a) Light.
(b) Blood.
(c) War.
(d) Dark.

2. In the opening of the Interlude, how does Beckett describe his sermon to the audience?
(a) Short.
(b) Important.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Sad.

3. What does the First Priest bring in?
(a) The banner of St. Elphage.
(b) The banner of St. John the Apostle.
(c) The banner of the Holy Innocents.
(d) The banner of St. Stephen.

4. What would be the most likely reaction of the Canterbury people that this is Beckett's last sermon?
(a) Apathy and boredom.
(b) Shock and confusion.
(c) None of these.
(d) Happiness and celebration.

5. What does Becket call "the springtime fancy?"
(a) Acrimony.
(b) Ceremony.
(c) Leave-well-alone.
(d) The impossible, the undesirable .

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beckett call his congregation?

2. What does Beckett ask the audience to remember about Christmas mass?

3. How does the Third Tempter describe himself?

4. What does Beckett see himself as, in reference to his definitions of martyrdom?

5. What is the best way to define the style in which T.S. Eliot wrote the Interlude?

(see the answer key)

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