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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fill in the blank: "I leave you to the pleasure of your __________, Which will have to be paid for at ______________."
(a) life; your strife.
(b) lies; the end.
(c) higher vices; higher prices.
(d) piety; reckoning.

2. According to the information in the opening monologue, how many years have passed since the Archbishop has left the city?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) Twelve.

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

4. What does the First Tempter tell Becket he remembers?
(a) The danger he is in.
(b) The good time past.
(c) The hard times of the poor.
(d) His loyalty to the king.

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) The Past.
(b) Fate.
(c) Death.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does the Third Priest use to compare the relationship between the King and the Archbishop?

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

3. How does the Chorus describe itself?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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