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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing the Third Tempter and his party want from Beckett?
(a) Money.
(b) The blessing of God.
(c) Favor from the Church.
(d) Happiness for the People of England.

2. What is it that the Second Tempter offers Becket?
(a) His former political position.
(b) A new life.
(c) The English throne.
(d) A new love.

3. How does the Third Tempter describe himself?
(a) A man who is rich in spirit
(b) A rough, straightforward Englishman.
(c) A surly English peasant
(d) A rough and angry follower of the king

4. What, according to the First Tempter, "should be more than biting Time can sever?"
(a) Hope.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Death.

5. How does the structure of the dialogue change during Becket's first temptation?
(a) The play becomes one monologue.
(b) All of the characters other than Beckett fall silent.
(c) The First Tempter speaks in verse.
(d) All of the characters speak in riddles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the chorus define its time in Canterbury since the Archbishop left seven years previous?

2. Why is the fourth visitor the most successful Tempter?

3. How does the Chorus describe itself?

4. What does the Second Tempter tell Beckett he will be like if he continues on course?

5. What does Beckett believe to be the last temptation and what he fears the most?

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