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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was NOT one of the events that Becket describes in the lives of the disciples?
(a) Travel.
(b) Disappointment.
(c) Peace.
(d) Imprisonment.

2. How many visitors did Beckett expect?
(a) None.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

3. Where does Part II take place?
(a) Archbishop's Hall.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Cathedral.
(d) Both of these.

4. What does the First Tempter tell Becket he remembers?
(a) His loyalty to the king.
(b) The hard times of the poor.
(c) The good time past.
(d) The danger he is in.

5. What Biblical quote does Beckett repeat?
(a) "The Lord is My shepard, I shall not want; He makes me lie down in green pastures."
(b) "God bless us, every one."
(c) "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."
(d) "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of goodwill."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the scene change to when the Priests and Beckett exit?

2. Whose words and ideas does Beckett NOT reference in his sermon?

3. What is the major question the Fourth Knight asks of the audience?

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

5. How does the chorus define its time in Canterbury since the Archbishop left seven years previous?

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