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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the chorus define its time in Canterbury since the Archbishop left seven years previous?
(a) Living and partly living.
(b) Living and partly suffering.
(c) Living and partly dying.
(d) Dying and partly dying.

2. Why is the fourth visitor the most successful Tempter?
(a) He represents the people.
(b) He voices Beckett's own desires.
(c) He makes peace between Beckett and the King.
(d) He helps Beckett find peace.

3. Why does Beckett believe that the local bishops would not support a power move like regaining his Chancellorship?
(a) Because he excommunicated them.
(b) Because the Pope would not allow it.
(c) Because the King would not allow it.
(d) Because the Pope excommunicated Beckett.

4. What is it that the Second Tempter offers Becket?
(a) A new love.
(b) The English throne.
(c) His former political position.
(d) A new life.

5. After the first scene featuring the three Priests, the Chorus speaks again. What do they wish the Archbishop to do?
(a) Turn the wheel.
(b) Bless them.
(c) Return to France.
(d) Make peace with the King.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Messenger call the relationship between the King and the Archbishop?

2. According to the Four Tempters, what is man's life?

3. What is the first action that the Second Priest wants to take to welcome the Archbishop back to Canterbury?

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

5. What is one thing the Third Tempter and his party want from Beckett?

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