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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beckett ask the audience to remember about Christmas mass?
(a) The love of God.
(b) The hope and peace it offers.
(c) Its sadness and greatness.
(d) Its meaning and mystery.

2. Why does Beckett believe that the local bishops would not support a power move like regaining his Chancellorship?
(a) Because the Pope would not allow it.
(b) Because the King would not allow it.
(c) Because he excommunicated them.
(d) Because the Pope excommunicated Beckett.

3. How does the Chorus describe itself?
(a) Lonely folk.
(b) Poor folk.
(c) Small folk.
(d) Representative of all people of Canterbury.

4. What is another way Beckett refuses to define a martyr?
(a) Someone who has lost his will to a higher one.
(b) Someone who does not desire anything for himself.
(c) Someone both mourned and celebrated.
(d) An accident of chance.

5. What, according to Beckett, is celebrated that day?
(a) The Miracles of Christ.
(b) The Resurrection of Christ.
(c) The Passion and Death of Christ
(d) The Birth of Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beckett claim the Fourth Tempter offers?

2. According to the information in the opening monologue, how many years have passed since the Archbishop has left the city?

3. What idea does the Fourth Tempter repeat that Beckett voiced on his first entrance?

4. What does the Messenger call the relationship between the King and the Archbishop?

5. What does the Chorus claim is their purpose in the action of the play?

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