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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the major point that the Third Knights wishes to relate to the audience?
(a) The Knights are getting nothing out of the murder.
(b) The King ordered them to go through with the murder.
(c) The Knights are getting paid to kill Beckett.
(d) The Knights have huge stakes in the murder.

2. What does Becket claim is the "substance of our first act?"
(a) God and his mercy.
(b) Temptation, and the life with temptation.
(c) Shadows, and the strife with shadows.
(d) God and his greatness.

3. When Beckett mentions the shepherd and his fold, who or what is he referring to?
(a) Himself and the Priests.
(b) Himself and the people of Canterbury.
(c) Himself and the barons.
(d) Himself and the King.

4. Fill in the blank:" ...so in Heaven the Saints are most _______, having made themselves most _______..."
(a) Low; high
(b) Dead; alive.
(c) At peace; at war
(d) High; low.

5. What is one of the major sentiments of the Chorus' "death-bringer" speech?
(a) Determination.
(b) Anger.
(c) Helplessness.
(d) Greed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Chorus continue to reference in the speech that begins, "I have smelt them, the death-bringers..."

2. What part of the Knights' claim does Beckett doubt to be true?

3. According to Beckett, who condemned the bishops?

4. What idea does the Fourth Tempter repeat that Beckett voiced on his first entrance?

5. From what Gospel does Beckett quote in the opening of his sermon?

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