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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 one of the things the Knights compare Beckett to?
(a) An eagle.
(b) An ant.
(c) A deer.
(d) A louse.

2. How might you define the Knights on their entrance?
(a) Earnest.
(b) Demanding.
(c) Sulky.
(d) Quiet.

3. Beckett asks the congregation to think about the meaning of what word?
(a) Sacrifice.
(b) War.
(c) Peace.
(d) God.

4. What is the last word of the Interlude?
(a) God.
(b) Peace.
(c) Canterbury.
(d) Amen.

5. What character(s) opens the play with the first monologue?
(a) Thomas Becket.
(b) The Chorus.
(c) The Messenger.
(d) The Priests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beckett demand of the Priests?

2. Whose idea is being echoed when Beckett talks of the promise of peace being "a disappointment and a cheat?"

3. What is the major question the Fourth Knight asks of the audience?

4. Finish the thought of the First Tempter: "A man will often love what he ______."

5. What, according to Beckett, is celebrated that day?

(see the answer key)

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