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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Becket call "the springtime fancy?"
(a) Acrimony.
(b) Leave-well-alone.
(c) The impossible, the undesirable .
(d) Ceremony.

3. What does Beckett claim the Fourth Tempter offers?
(a) Promises of Nothing.
(b) Dreams to Damnation.
(c) Hopes that Die.
(d) An End to Suffering.

4. According to the information in the opening monologue, how many years have passed since the Archbishop has left the city?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

5. "The wheel" is spoken of time and time again. In one instance Becket says that "Only the fool, fixed in his folly, may think he can turn the wheel on which he turns." What is the idea of a wheel supposed to symbolize?
(a) Death.
(b) The Past.
(c) Love.
(d) Fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Chorus, what does the Archbishop bring into Canterbury?

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

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

4. How does the Fourth Tempter claim Beckett can have ultimate glory and power over the King of England?

5. How does the Chorus describe itself?

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