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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the Tempter successful?
(a) Beckett plans for an escape.
(b) Beckett makes peace with the King.
(c) Beckett ends up accepting his fate.
(d) Beckett makes peace with the barons.

2. Finish the thought of the First Tempter: "A man will often love what he ______."
(a) Misses.
(b) Sees.
(c) Spurns.
(d) Hates.

3. What part of the Knights' claim does Beckett doubt to be true?
(a) That they will realy try to kill him.
(b) That the King sent them.
(c) That he is prideful.
(d) That his crimes are true.

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

5. What is not one of the ways the Chorus, the priests and the Tempters describe an unexpected death?
(a) Taking a shock to the skull.
(b) Drowning in a ditch.
(c) Attacked by dogs.
(d) Slipping on a step.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does the Interlude take place?

2. What is the major point that the Third Knights wishes to relate to the audience?

3. According to Beckett, what is one way you cannot define a martyr?

4. How does the Chorus describe itself?

5. What word do the Priests continually mull over?

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