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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is not one of the events of the past seven years that the Chorus describes?
(a) The town burning down.
(b) Brewing beer.
(c) The disappearance of several girls.
(d) A good harvest.

2. What is not one of the ways the Chorus, the priests and the Tempters describe an unexpected death?
(a) Taking a shock to the skull.
(b) Drowning in a ditch.
(c) Attacked by dogs.
(d) Slipping on a step.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Beckett, is celebrated that day?

2. How does the structure of the dialogue change during Becket's first temptation?

3. To Beckett, what is martyrdom?

4. What would be the most likely reaction of the Canterbury people that this is Beckett's last sermon?

5. Who does Becket say may have intercepted his letters and planned his demise?

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