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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When will the First Tempter remember Becket?
(a) On Christmas Day.
(b) At night when the fires are lit.
(c) On ChristmasEve.
(d) At kissing time below the stairs.

2. What is the first idea that Becket relates to his audience and what does he insist that the Chorus "know and do not know?"
(a) Action is suffering and suffering is action.
(b) The world is suffering and they are the world.
(c) Suffering is everything and everything is suffering.
(d) Life is suffering and suffering is death.

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

4. What does Becket call "the springtime fancy?"
(a) Leave-well-alone.
(b) Acrimony.
(c) The impossible, the undesirable .
(d) Ceremony.

5. "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?
(a) Love.
(b) The Past.
(c) Death.
(d) Fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the feeling of the general public in regard to the Archbishop's return?

2. Why does Beckett believe that the local bishops would not support a power move like regaining his Chancellorship?

3. What does the First Priest compare the women of Canterbury to?

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

5. How does Thomas Beckett's thought end?: "If the Archbishop cannot trust the Throne/ He has good cause to trust none but _____________"

(see the answer key)

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