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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fill in the blank: "I leave you to the pleasure of your __________, Which will have to be paid for at ______________."
(a) higher vices; higher prices.
(b) lies; the end.
(c) piety; reckoning.
(d) life; your strife.

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

3. "The wheel" is spoken of time and time again. In one instance Becket says that "Only the fool, fixed in his folly, may think he can turn the wheel on which he turns." What is the idea of a wheel supposed to symbolize?
(a) Death.
(b) Love.
(c) Fate.
(d) The Past.

4. What does Becket call "the springtime fancy?"
(a) The impossible, the undesirable .
(b) Acrimony.
(c) Leave-well-alone.
(d) Ceremony.

5. What does the First Priest compare the women of Canterbury to?
(a) Chickens in a coop.
(b) Horses in the stalls.
(c) Worms in the belly.
(d) Frogs in the treetops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month does the Second Tempter say Beckett will have power?

2. What metaphor does the Third Priest use to compare the relationship between the King and the Archbishop?

3. What does Becket claim is the "substance of our first act?"

4. What, according to the First Tempter, "should be more than biting Time can sever?"

5. Finish the thought of the First Tempter: "A man will often love what he ______."

(see the answer key)

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