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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group of people does the Chorus consist of?
(a) The Poor of Canterbury.
(b) The Women of Canturbury.
(c) The Ghosts of Canterbury.
(d) The Hand of God.

2. What, according to the First Tempter, "should be more than biting Time can sever?"
(a) Hope.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Death.
(d) Friendship.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not one of the ways the Chorus, the priests and the Tempters describe an unexpected death?

2. What does the Chorus claim is their purpose in the action of the play?

3. What is the first action that the Second Priest wants to take to welcome the Archbishop back to Canterbury?

4. How does the chorus define its time in Canterbury since the Archbishop left seven years previous?

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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