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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another way Beckett defines peace?
(a) The stillness of water.
(b) The setting sun.
(c) The sleeping dog.
(d) The swept hearth.

2. 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) Fire and water.
(d) A hammer and an anvil.

3. Whose idea is being echoed when Beckett talks of the promise of peace being "a disappointment and a cheat?"
(a) The Four Knights.
(b) The Three Priests.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) The Four Tempters.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the First Tempter predict for Becket if he does not "leave well alone?"

2. What is one of the reasons Beckett would allow himself to be killed?

3. "The wheel" is spoken of time and time again. In one instance Becket says that "Only the fool, fixed in his folly, may think he can turn the wheel on which he turns." What is the idea of a wheel supposed to symbolize?

4. Why does Beckett believe that the local bishops would not support a power move like regaining his Chancellorship?

5. Finish the thought of the First Tempter: "A man will often love what he ______."

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