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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does Murder in the Cathedral take place?
(a) 1170.
(b) 1070.
(c) 1077.
(d) 1710.

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

3. What is not one of the things that the Tempter describes in his flashback of the "good time" Becket used to enjoy in his service to King Henry?
(a) Singing at nightfall.
(b) Fires devouring the winter season.
(c) Spring melting the winter ice.
(d) Fluting in the meadows.

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

5. From what Gospel does Beckett quote in the opening of his sermon?
(a) Michael
(b) John
(c) Luke
(d) Genesis

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing the Third Tempter and his party want from Beckett?

2. How does the Chorus describe itself?

3. What does Beckett believe to be the last temptation and what he fears the most?

4. Which Biblical story does Beckett mention?

5. What does the Messenger say were the last words of Thomas Becket to the King of England before the Archbishop's exile?

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