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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one of the ways Beckett defines peace?
(a) Barons at peace with the King.
(b) A wife singing to her children.
(c) Drinking wine with a friend at a table.
(d) The Pope at peace with the King.

2. What does Beckett claim the Fourth Tempter offers?
(a) An End to Suffering.
(b) Hopes that Die.
(c) Promises of Nothing.
(d) Dreams to Damnation.

3. How does the Chorus describe itself?
(a) Poor folk.
(b) Lonely folk.
(c) Small folk.
(d) Representative of all people of Canterbury.

4. Who are the first two characters who speak of "the wheel" on separate occasions?
(a) The Chorus and Thomas Becket.
(b) The First Priest and the Second Priest.
(c) The Third Priest and Thomas Becket.
(d) The First Priest and the First Tempter.

5. Looking at the clues in the Interlude, which Tempter proved to be the most successful?
(a) The Second.
(b) The Third.
(c) The Fourth.
(d) The First.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Biblical story does Beckett mention?

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

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

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

5. Which is NOT an adjective you might use to define Beckett's sermon?

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