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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Where the Archbishop is staying.
(c) How much time they have before the Archbishop arrives.
(d) If the King has learned of the Archbishop's return from France.

2. Who does Becket say may have intercepted his letters and planned his demise?
(a) Greedy merchants.
(b) King Henry II.
(c) Rebellious bishops.
(d) The King of France.

3. What idea does the Fourth Tempter repeat that Beckett voiced on his first entrance?
(a) Everything is suffering and suffering is everthing.
(b) Action is suffering and suffering is action.
(c) Life is suffering and suffering is death.
(d) Suffering is life and life is action.

4. 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 England, a land I shall not see again.
(b) My Lord, I leave you as a man whom in this life I shall not see again.
(c) My Lord, I leave you as a man, whom you shall not see again for seven years.
(d) My Lord, I leave you as a man, whom you shall see again as an angel.

5. What does Becket claim is the "substance of our first act?"
(a) God and his mercy.
(b) God and his greatness.
(c) Temptation, and the life with temptation.
(d) Shadows, and the strife with shadows.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Second Tempter claim real power is purchased?

2. What is the first word that Becket speaks on his first entrance?

3. What is one thing the Third Tempter and his party want from Beckett?

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

5. What is it that the Second Tempter offers Becket?

(see the answer key)

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