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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Why does Beckett tell the people that he may never preach to them again?
(a) He is too sad to speak any more.
(b) He believes he will be murdered soon.
(c) He doesn't want to give them false hope.
(d) He is out of ideas.

3. What does the Messenger say were the last words of Thomas Becket to the King of England before the Archbishop's exile?
(a) My Lord, I leave England, a land I shall not see again.
(b) My Lord, I leave you as a man, whom you shall not see again for seven years.
(c) My Lord, I leave you as a man, whom you shall see again as an angel.
(d) My Lord, I leave you as a man whom in this life I shall not see again.

4. What does the First Priest compare the women of Canterbury to?
(a) Frogs in the treetops.
(b) Horses in the stalls.
(c) Chickens in a coop.
(d) Worms in the belly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best way to define the style in which T.S. Eliot wrote the Interlude?

2. What is the first word that Becket speaks on his first entrance?

3. Who might be the least likely character to show up to Beckett's sermon?

4. When will the First Tempter remember Becket?

5. What does Becket call "the springtime fancy?"

(see the answer key)

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