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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Beckett born?
(a) Chiswick.
(b) Camden .
(c) King's Cross.
(d) Cheapside.

3. Who protects Beckett from physical harm when he is first attacked?
(a) The Priests.
(b) The Knights.
(c) The Tempters.
(d) The Chorus.

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

5. What is the first idea that Becket relates to his audience and what does he insist that the Chorus "know and do not know?"
(a) Action is suffering and suffering is action.
(b) The world is suffering and they are the world.
(c) Life is suffering and suffering is death.
(d) Suffering is everything and everything is suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. Looking at the clues in the Interlude, which Tempter proved to be the most successful?

2. What is the major question the Fourth Knight asks of the audience?

3. What is another way Beckett defines peace?

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

5. What is NOT one of the crimes the Knights accuse Beckett of?

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