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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What idea does the Fourth Tempter repeat that Beckett voiced on his first entrance?
(a) Everything is suffering and suffering is everthing.
(b) Life is suffering and suffering is death.
(c) Suffering is life and life is action.
(d) Action is suffering and suffering is action.

3. What metaphor does the Third Priest use to compare the relationship between the King and the Archbishop?
(a) A rock and a hard place.
(b) A wolf and a sheep.
(c) A hammer and an anvil.
(d) Fire and water.

4. What is another way Beckett refuses to define a martyr?
(a) Someone who has lost his will to a higher one.
(b) An accident of chance.
(c) Someone who does not desire anything for himself.
(d) Someone both mourned and celebrated.

5. Why does Beckett believe we should celebrate martyrs?
(a) Neither.
(b) They die for the salvation of men.
(c) They do it for the glory of God.
(d) Both.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary tool does T.S. Eliot use throughout the Interlude?

2. In Part One, where does the action of the play take place?

3. What does Beckett believe about the peace that the world was promised?

4. What does Beckett claim the Fourth Tempter offers?

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

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