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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What might be the purpose of the Interlude?
(a) To allow the audience a break .
(b) To prepare the audience for the events of Part II.
(c) To show the audience how unwilling Beckett is concerning his fate.
(d) To instill the fear of God .

2. What is NOT one of the things that Beckett says they rejoice in?
(a) The Christmas pageant.
(b) Taking Communion.
(c) The sacrifice of Christ for our sins.
(d) Christ coming for the salvation of men.

3. What are the words Beckett quotes from the Bible?
(a) "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will."
(b) "God bless us, every one."
(c) "The Lord is My shepard, I shall not want; He makes me lie down in green pastures."
(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."

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

5. According to Beckett, what is one way you cannot define a martyr?
(a) An instrument of God.
(b) Someone killed for the glory of God.
(c) A man given peace by God.
(d) A Christian killed because he is a Christian.

6. What was NOT one of the events that Becket describes in the lives of the disciples?
(a) Travel.
(b) Peace.
(c) Imprisonment.
(d) Disappointment.

7. How does Beckett close his sermon?
(a) In Christ's name.
(b) God bless us, every one.
(c) Peace on earth, and goodwill toward men.
(d) In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

8. What is the best way to describe what Beckett seems to feel for his congregation?
(a) Disdain.
(b) Wonder.
(c) Love.
(d) Pity.

9. What is NOT a reason that Beckett gives for God choosing to have martyrs?
(a) To warn them.
(b) To being mankind back to His ways.
(c) To instill fear in them.
(d) To lead them.

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

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

12. Why does Beckett believe we should celebrate martyrs?
(a) Both.
(b) They die for the salvation of men.
(c) They do it for the glory of God.
(d) Neither.

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

14. What is one way that Beckett defines peace?
(a) The Pope at peace with the King.
(b) The people of Canterbury at peace with their fate.
(c) The kingdom of England at peace with its neighbors.
(d) The entire world at peace with no war in sight.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fill in the blanks: "For who on the world will both _______ and ________ at once and for the same reason?"

2. What does Beckett see himself as, in reference to his definitions of martyrdom?

3. Beckett asks the congregation to think about the meaning of what word?

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

5. Which specific Canterbury martyr does Beckett ask the congregation to remember?

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