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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 hope and peace it offers.
(b) The love of God.
(c) Its meaning and mystery.
(d) Its sadness and greatness.

2. What is the best way to define the style in which T.S. Eliot wrote the Interlude?
(a) Blank verse.
(b) Dialogue
(c) Monologue
(d) Poetry

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

4. Looking at the clues in the Interlude, which Tempter proved to be the most successful?
(a) The First.
(b) The Fourth.
(c) The Second.
(d) The Third.

5. How does the Fourth Tempter claim Beckett can have ultimate glory and power over the King of England?
(a) By becoming the Chancellor again.
(b) By giving his money to the people.
(c) By killing the King.
(d) By becoming a martyr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Beckett, is reenacted during Mass?

2. Which specific Canterbury martyr does Beckett ask the congregation to remember?

3. What is the first idea that Becket relates to his audience and what does he insist that the Chorus "know and do not know?"

4. After the first scene featuring the three Priests, the Chorus speaks again. What do they wish the Archbishop to do?

5. In Part One, where does the action of the play take place?

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