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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 dying.
(c) Dying and partly dying.
(d) Living and partly suffering.

2. In what year does Murder in the Cathedral take place?
(a) 1070.
(b) 1170.
(c) 1710.
(d) 1077.

3. What is one thing the Third Tempter and his party want from Beckett?
(a) The blessing of God.
(b) Favor from the Church.
(c) Money.
(d) Happiness for the People of England.

4. In Part One, where does the action of the play take place?
(a) The King's palace.
(b) Outside the gates of the Cathedral.
(c) The Cathedral.
(d) The Archbishop's hall.

5. What position did Becket resign when he was made Archbishop?
(a) King.
(b) Ambassador.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Chancellor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Becket say may have intercepted his letters and planned his demise?

2. According to the Third Tempter, what does friendship depend upon?

3. What is the first word that Becket speaks on his first entrance?

4. What is not one of the things that the Tempter describes in his flashback of the "good time" Becket used to enjoy in his service to King Henry?

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

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