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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first action that the Second Priest wants to take to welcome the Archbishop back to Canterbury?
(a) Have a feast.
(b) Have the fires lit in his rooms.
(c) Lead a prayer.
(d) Throw a celebration in his honor.

2. What is it that the Second Tempter offers Becket?
(a) A new life.
(b) The English throne.
(c) His former political position.
(d) A new love.

3. Fill in the blank: "I leave you to the pleasure of your __________, Which will have to be paid for at ______________."
(a) higher vices; higher prices.
(b) lies; the end.
(c) piety; reckoning.
(d) life; your strife.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Becket say may have intercepted his letters and planned his demise?

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

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

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

5. In Part One, where does the action of the play take place?

(see the answer key)

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