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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What character(s) opens the play with the first monologue?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) The Messenger.
(c) Thomas Becket.
(d) The Priests.

3. Who are the first two characters who speak of "the wheel" on separate occasions?
(a) The First Priest and the First Tempter.
(b) The Chorus and Thomas Becket.
(c) The Third Priest and Thomas Becket.
(d) The First Priest and the Second Priest.

4. Finish the sentence: "I am not in danger..."
(a) "...only near to the Void."
(b) "...only near to God."
(c) "... only near to Death."
(d) "...only alone."

5. What is the major question the Fourth Knight asks of the audience?
(a) Why didn't you save him?
(b) Who are you?
(c) Who killed the Archbishop?
(d) Who is the real villain?

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the information in the opening monologue, how many years have passed since the Archbishop has left the city?

2. How does the Third Tempter describe himself?

3. What does the Chorus continue to reference in the speech that begins, "I have smelt them, the death-bringers..."

4. Looking at the clues in the Interlude, which Tempter proved to be the most successful?

5. What does Becket claim is the "substance of our first act?"

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