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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The First Tempter speaks in verse.
(d) All of the characters speak in riddles.

2. How does the chorus define its time in Canterbury since the Archbishop left seven years previous?
(a) Living and partly living.
(b) Living and partly suffering.
(c) Living and partly dying.
(d) Dying and partly dying.

3. What are the priests eager to know once the Messenger has delivered his initial message?
(a) How much time they have before the Archbishop arrives.
(b) If the King and the Archbishop have made peace.
(c) Where the Archbishop is staying.
(d) If the King has learned of the Archbishop's return from France.

4. After the first scene featuring the three Priests, the Chorus speaks again. What do they wish the Archbishop to do?
(a) Bless them.
(b) Return to France.
(c) Make peace with the King.
(d) Turn the wheel.

5. What doesn't the Third Priest see in "the art of temporal government?"
(a) Intrigue.
(b) Frequent Malversation.
(c) Violence.
(d) Duplicity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important message does the Messenger convey to the Priests?

2. What is not one of the things that the Tempter describes in his flashback of the "good time" Becket used to enjoy in his service to King Henry?

3. Who are the first two characters who speak of "the wheel" on separate occasions?

4. According to the Third Tempter, what does friendship depend upon?

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

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