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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 Second Tempter claim real power is purchased?
(a) At price of his devotion to God.
(b) At price of a certain submission.
(c) At price of his immortal soul.
(d) At price of an uncertain quantity.

2. What does the First Tempter tell Becket he remembers?
(a) The hard times of the poor.
(b) The good time past.
(c) His loyalty to the king.
(d) The danger he is in.

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

4. What, according to the First Tempter, "should be more than biting Time can sever?"
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Death.
(c) Hope.
(d) Friendship.

5. What does Becket claim is the "substance of our first act?"
(a) Shadows, and the strife with shadows.
(b) God and his mercy.
(c) Temptation, and the life with temptation.
(d) God and his greatness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the feeling of the general public in regard to the Archbishop's return?

2. "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?

3. What does the Third Tempter believe upon his arrival?

4. What does Beckett claim the Fourth Tempter offers?

5. According to the Chorus, what does the Archbishop bring into Canterbury?

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