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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Beckett feel about martyrs?
(a) He is confused by them.
(b) He is apathetic about them.
(c) He fears them.
(d) He admires them.

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

4. How does Thomas Beckett's thought end?: "If the Archbishop cannot trust the Throne/ He has good cause to trust none but _____________"
(a) His people alone.
(b) The Pope alone.
(c) Himself alone.
(d) God alone.

5. Why was the Tempter successful?
(a) Beckett makes peace with the King.
(b) Beckett ends up accepting his fate.
(c) Beckett makes peace with the barons.
(d) Beckett plans for an escape.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beckett see himself as, in reference to his definitions of martyrdom?

2. What is one thing the Third Tempter and his party want from Beckett?

3. Who does Becket say saved him from the wrath of his enemies?

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

5. Fill in the blanks: "For who on the world will both _______ and ________ at once and for the same reason?"

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