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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Third Tempter, what does friendship depend upon?
(a) Circumstance.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Time.
(d) Peace.

2. What group of people does the Chorus consist of?
(a) The Hand of God.
(b) The Ghosts of Canterbury.
(c) The Poor of Canterbury.
(d) The Women of Canturbury.

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

4. What does Becket claim is the "substance of our first act?"
(a) God and his mercy.
(b) Temptation, and the life with temptation.
(c) God and his greatness.
(d) Shadows, and the strife with shadows.

5. Who was NOT mentioned in Beckett's sermon?
(a) The Holy Innocents.
(b) The disciples.
(c) Shepards of bethlehem.
(d) St. Stephen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Becket resign when he was made Archbishop?

2. What is the first idea that Becket relates to his audience and what does he insist that the Chorus "know and do not know?"

3. What is another way Beckett refuses to define a martyr?

4. What is not one of the topics of Beckett's sermon in the Interlude?

5. According to the Four Tempters, what is man's life?

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