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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to the Third Tempter, what does friendship depend upon?
(a) Peace.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Time.
(d) Circumstance.
2. How does Thomas Beckett's thought end?: "If the Archbishop cannot trust the Throne/ He has good cause to trust none but _____________"
(a) God alone.
(b) The Pope alone.
(c) Himself alone.
(d) His people alone.
3. What is the first action that the Second Priest wants to take to welcome the Archbishop back to Canterbury?
(a) Have the fires lit in his rooms.
(b) Throw a celebration in his honor.
(c) Lead a prayer.
(d) Have a feast.
4. What are the priests eager to know once the Messenger has delivered his initial message?
(a) If the King and the Archbishop have made peace.
(b) If the King has learned of the Archbishop's return from France.
(c) How much time they have before the Archbishop arrives.
(d) Where the Archbishop is staying.
5. What does the Messenger say were the last words of Thomas Becket to the King of England before the Archbishop's exile?
(a) My Lord, I leave you as a man, whom you shall see again as an angel.
(b) My Lord, I leave you as a man, whom you shall not see again for seven years.
(c) My Lord, I leave you as a man whom in this life I shall not see again.
(d) My Lord, I leave England, a land I shall not see again.
Short Answer Questions
1. What metaphor does the Third Priest use to compare the relationship between the King and the Archbishop?
2. "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?
3. How does the Chorus describe itself?
4. Who does Becket say may have intercepted his letters and planned his demise?
5. What is the first idea that Becket relates to his audience and what does he insist that the Chorus "know and do not know?"
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