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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What month does the Second Tempter say Beckett will have power?
(a) The last from the first.
(b) The last to the last.
(c) The first to the second.
(d) The first.

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

3. Who states that "Power is present. Holiness hereafter?"
(a) The Second Tempter.
(b) Thomas Beckett.
(c) The Second Tempter.
(d) The Fourth Tempter.

4. What does the Chorus claim is their purpose in the action of the play?
(a) To prevent a murder.
(b) To serve the Priests of the Cathedral.
(c) To warn Thomas Becket.
(d) To witness the events and take no action.

5. What character(s) opens the play with the first monologue?
(a) The Priests.
(b) Thomas Becket.
(c) The Messenger.
(d) The Chorus.

Short Answer Questions

1. "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?

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. How does the Fourth Tempter claim Beckett can have ultimate glory and power over the King of England?

4. What is not one of the events of the past seven years that the Chorus describes?

5. Who does the Third Tempter represent?

(see the answer key)

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