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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Suffering is everything and everything is suffering.
(c) The world is suffering and they are the world.
(d) Life is suffering and suffering is death.

2. What is the first action that the Second Priest wants to take to welcome the Archbishop back to Canterbury?
(a) Have the fires lit in his rooms.
(b) Lead a prayer.
(c) Have a feast.
(d) Throw a celebration in his honor.

3. How was the Tempter unsuccessful?
(a) Beckett is not dying for the King.
(b) Beckett chooses to live.
(c) Beckett is dying for love.
(d) Beckett is not dying for glory.

4. What is one thing the Third Tempter and his party want from Beckett?
(a) Favor from the Church.
(b) Money.
(c) The blessing of God.
(d) Happiness for the People of England.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Beckett believe the thought of the angels bringing peace is strange?

2. In the opening of the Interlude, how does Beckett describe his sermon to the audience?

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

4. What idea does the Fourth Tempter repeat that Beckett voiced on his first entrance?

5. According to the information in the opening monologue, how many years have passed since the Archbishop has left the city?

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