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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Beckett, is reenacted during Mass?
(a) The Birth of Christ.
(b) The Resurrection of Christ.
(c) The Miracles of Christ.
(d) The Passion and Death of Christ.

2. Whose idea is being echoed when Beckett talks of the promise of peace being "a disappointment and a cheat?"
(a) The Chorus.
(b) The Four Knights.
(c) The Four Tempters.
(d) The Three Priests.

3. What does Beckett believe about the peace that the world was promised?
(a) It's laughable since no one has ever felt that peace they were promised.
(b) Nothing, he and the people of Canterbury contnue to lead mundane lives.
(c) It's frightening since there have been no angels seen since.
(d) It's strange since the world has constantly been at war.

4. In what year does the Interlude take place?
(a) 1070.
(b) 1007.
(c) 1117.
(d) 1170.

5. What are the words Beckett quotes from the Bible?
(a) "God bless us, every one."
(b) "The Lord is My shepard, I shall not want; He makes me lie down in green pastures."
(c) "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will."
(d) "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

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

7. Out of the following choices, which would be the least likely reason behind the sermon?
(a) To help define peace for his congregation.
(b) To submit to the Tempters.
(c) To celebrate martyrdom.
(d) To prepare his followers for his death.

8. Looking at the clues in the Interlude, which Tempter proved to be the most successful?
(a) The First.
(b) The Third.
(c) The Second.
(d) The Fourth.

9. Who might be the least likely character to show up to Beckett's sermon?
(a) The Tempters.
(b) Thomas Beckett.
(c) The Chorus..
(d) The Priests.

10. To Beckett, what is martyrdom?
(a) It is always a request of angels.
(b) It is always the design of God.
(c) An act of chance.
(d) It is the result of cruel men.

11. Where is the Interlude set?
(a) The King's palace.
(b) The Cathedral.
(c) The gates of the Cathedral.
(d) The Archbishop's Hall.

12. Why does Beckett believe the thought of the angels bringing peace is strange?
(a) The world has been struck by war.
(b) The world was already a happy place.
(c) No one listened to them.
(d) The angels ceased to appear

13. What is the best way to define the style in which T.S. Eliot wrote the Interlude?
(a) Blank verse.
(b) Monologue
(c) Poetry
(d) Dialogue

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

15. Whose words and ideas does Beckett NOT reference in his sermon?
(a) The Three Priests.
(b) The Four Tempters.
(c) God's angels.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening of the Interlude, how does Beckett describe his sermon to the audience?

2. What is the best way to describe what Beckett seems to feel for his congregation?

3. How was the Tempter unsuccessful?

4. Which Biblical story does Beckett mention?

5. What does Beckett call his congregation?

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