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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is NOT one of the ways Beckett defines peace?
(a) Drinking wine with a friend at a table.
(b) The Pope at peace with the King.
(c) Barons at peace with the King.
(d) A wife singing to her children.

3. Why was the Tempter successful?
(a) Beckett plans for an escape.
(b) Beckett makes peace with the barons.
(c) Beckett makes peace with the King.
(d) Beckett ends up accepting his fate.

4. In what city of England does the story take place?
(a) Canterbury.
(b) London.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) York.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Thomas Beckett's thought end?: "If the Archbishop cannot trust the Throne/ He has good cause to trust none but _____________"

2. How does the structure of the dialogue change during Becket's first temptation?

3. What is an effective speaking tool that Beckett uses in his speech?

4. Whose words and ideas does Beckett NOT reference in his sermon?

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

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