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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Biblical quote does Beckett repeat?
(a) "God bless us, every one."
(b) "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
(c) "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of goodwill."
(d) "The Lord is My shepard, I shall not want; He makes me lie down in green pastures."

3. According to the Four Tempters, what is man's life?
(a) A viscious cycle.
(b) An inconvenience to God.
(c) A cheat and a disappointment.
(d) A fleeting moment.

4. What metaphor does the Third Priest use to compare the relationship between the King and the Archbishop?
(a) Fire and water.
(b) A rock and a hard place.
(c) A wolf and a sheep.
(d) A hammer and an anvil.

5. What is the first action that the Second Priest wants to take to welcome the Archbishop back to Canterbury?
(a) Have a feast.
(b) Lead a prayer.
(c) Have the fires lit in his rooms.
(d) Throw a celebration in his honor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea does the Fourth Tempter repeat that Beckett voiced on his first entrance?

2. Which specific Canterbury martyr does Beckett ask the congregation to remember?

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

4. From what Gospel does Beckett quote in the opening of his sermon?

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?

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