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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Third Tempter, what does friendship depend upon?
(a) Time.
(b) Peace.
(c) Circumstance.
(d) Happiness.

2. What is another way Beckett refuses to define a martyr?
(a) Someone who does not desire anything for himself.
(b) Someone both mourned and celebrated.
(c) An accident of chance.
(d) Someone who has lost his will to a higher one.

3. What important message does the Messenger convey to the Priests?
(a) The Archbishop has arrived at the city.
(b) The King has ordered the execution of Thomas Becket.
(c) The Archbishop has left France.
(d) The Pope has excommunicated the King

4. What does the Chorus claim is their purpose in the action of the play?
(a) To warn Thomas Becket.
(b) To serve the Priests of the Cathedral.
(c) To witness the events and take no action.
(d) To prevent a murder.

5. According to Beckett's speech, what was the fate of the disciples?
(a) Death by martyrdom.
(b) A happy ending.
(c) Death by crucifixion.
(d) Peace in Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not one of the topics of Beckett's sermon in the Interlude?

2. What is one way that Beckett defines peace?

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

4. What character(s) opens the play with the first monologue?

5. At what time of day does the sermon take place?

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