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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beckett believe to be the last temptation and what he fears the most?
(a) Dying.
(b) Doing the right deed for the wrong reason.
(c) Doing the wrong thing for the right reason.
(d) Doing the thing you cannot do.

2. To Beckett, what is martyrdom?
(a) It is always the design of God.
(b) An act of chance.
(c) It is the result of cruel men.
(d) It is always a request of angels.

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?"
(a) The world is suffering and they are the world.
(b) Suffering is everything and everything is suffering.
(c) Life is suffering and suffering is death.
(d) Action is suffering and suffering is action.

4. According to the Third Tempter, what does friendship depend upon?
(a) Time.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Circumstance.
(d) Peace.

5. In what year does the Interlude take place?
(a) 1007.
(b) 1117.
(c) 1170.
(d) 1070.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another way Beckett defines peace?

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

3. How many visitors did Beckett expect?

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

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

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