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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beckett believe to be the last temptation and what he fears the most?
(a) Doing the right deed for the wrong reason.
(b) Doing the thing you cannot do.
(c) Dying.
(d) Doing the wrong thing for the right reason.

2. Why is the fourth visitor the most successful Tempter?
(a) He helps Beckett find peace.
(b) He represents the people.
(c) He voices Beckett's own desires.
(d) He makes peace between Beckett and the King.

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

4. In Part One, where does the action of the play take place?
(a) Outside the gates of the Cathedral.
(b) The Archbishop's hall.
(c) The King's palace.
(d) The Cathedral.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What doesn't the Third Priest see in "the art of temporal government?"

2. What month does the Second Tempter say Beckett will have power?

3. "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?

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

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

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