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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the Knights' visit?
(a) To see the Priests.
(b) To give warning from the King.
(c) To rest their men.
(d) To see Beckett.

2. What are the priests eager to know once the Messenger has delivered his initial message?
(a) Where the Archbishop is staying.
(b) If the King has learned of the Archbishop's return from France.
(c) How much time they have before the Archbishop arrives.
(d) If the King and the Archbishop have made peace.

3. Whose idea is being echoed when Beckett talks of the promise of peace being "a disappointment and a cheat?"
(a) The Four Tempters.
(b) The Three Priests.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) The Four Knights.

4. What does Beckett believe about the peace that the world was promised?
(a) It's strange since the world has constantly been at war.
(b) It's frightening since there have been no angels seen since.
(c) It's laughable since no one has ever felt that peace they were promised.
(d) Nothing, he and the people of Canterbury contnue to lead mundane lives.

5. Where does Beckett insist that the crimes against him should be formally stated?
(a) In public.
(b) In private.
(c) In the Church.
(d) In a court of law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best way to describe what Beckett seems to feel for his congregation?

2. What is not one of the events of the past seven years that the Chorus describes?

3. Who might be the least likely character to show up to Beckett's sermon?

4. How does the Chorus describe itself?

5. What Biblical quote does Beckett repeat?

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