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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Messenger say were the last words of Thomas Becket to the King of England before the Archbishop's exile?
(a) My Lord, I leave you as a man, whom you shall see again as an angel.
(b) My Lord, I leave England, a land I shall not see again.
(c) My Lord, I leave you as a man, whom you shall not see again for seven years.
(d) My Lord, I leave you as a man whom in this life I shall not see again.

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

3. What month does the Second Tempter say Beckett will have power?
(a) The last to the last.
(b) The last from the first.
(c) The first to the second.
(d) The first.

4. How does the structure of the dialogue change during Becket's first temptation?
(a) All of the characters speak in riddles.
(b) The First Tempter speaks in verse.
(c) All of the characters other than Beckett fall silent.
(d) The play becomes one monologue.

5. Which specific Canterbury martyr does Beckett ask the congregation to remember?
(a) Archbishop Beckett.
(b) John the Baptist.
(c) Archbishop Elphage.
(d) St. John the Apostle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beckett see himself as, in reference to his definitions of martyrdom?

2. Which Biblical story does Beckett mention?

3. Who states that "Power is present. Holiness hereafter?"

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

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

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