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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Becket claim is the "substance of our first act?"
(a) God and his greatness.
(b) Temptation, and the life with temptation.
(c) Shadows, and the strife with shadows.
(d) God and his mercy.

4. How does the chorus define its time in Canterbury since the Archbishop left seven years previous?
(a) Living and partly dying.
(b) Living and partly suffering.
(c) Dying and partly dying.
(d) Living and partly living.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is NOT one of the things that Beckett says they rejoice in?

3. Out of the following choices, which would be the least likely reason behind the sermon?

4. What are the words Beckett quotes from the Bible?

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?"

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