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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea does the Fourth Tempter repeat that Beckett voiced on his first entrance?
(a) Action is suffering and suffering is action.
(b) Everything is suffering and suffering is everthing.
(c) Life is suffering and suffering is death.
(d) Suffering is life and life is action.

2. 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) Suffering is everything and everything is suffering.
(b) Action is suffering and suffering is action.
(c) Life is suffering and suffering is death.
(d) The world is suffering and they are the world.

3. What doesn't the Third Priest see in "the art of temporal government?"
(a) Duplicity.
(b) Frequent Malversation.
(c) Intrigue.
(d) Violence.

4. What is not one of the things that the Tempter describes in his flashback of the "good time" Becket used to enjoy in his service to King Henry?
(a) Spring melting the winter ice.
(b) Singing at nightfall.
(c) Fires devouring the winter season.
(d) Fluting in the meadows.

5. What metaphor does the Third Priest use to compare the relationship between the King and the Archbishop?
(a) Fire and water.
(b) A wolf and a sheep.
(c) A hammer and an anvil.
(d) A rock and a hard place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ruler of England does the Second Priest refer to as "the stubborn King?"

2. How does the Second Tempter claim real power is purchased?

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

4. What does the First Tempter tell Becket he remembers?

5. According to the Four Tempters, what is man's life?

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