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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Messenger call the relationship between the King and the Archbishop?
(a) A peaceful affair.
(b) A patched-up affair.
(c) A violent affair.
(d) A silly affair.

2. What are the words Beckett quotes from the Bible?
(a) "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
(b) "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will."
(c) "The Lord is My shepard, I shall not want; He makes me lie down in green pastures."
(d) "God bless us, every one."

3. What does Becket call "the springtime fancy?"
(a) Acrimony.
(b) Leave-well-alone.
(c) The impossible, the undesirable .
(d) Ceremony.

4. What is the best way to define the style in which T.S. Eliot wrote the Interlude?
(a) Blank verse.
(b) Dialogue
(c) Poetry
(d) Monologue

5. 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) God alone.
(d) Himself alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last word of the Interlude?

2. Whose idea is being echoed when Beckett talks of the promise of peace being "a disappointment and a cheat?"

3. Which Biblical story does Beckett mention?

4. Who does Becket say may have intercepted his letters and planned his demise?

5. Looking at the clues in the Interlude, which Tempter proved to be the most successful?

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