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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the Third Tempter represent?
(a) English Merchants.
(b) The King.
(c) English barons.
(d) The People of Canterbury.

2. What does the Third Tempter believe upon his arrival?
(a) He was unexpected.
(b) He is in danger.
(c) He was expected.
(d) He is there to cause confusion.

3. In what city of England does the story take place?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Canterbury.
(c) York.
(d) London.

4. In Part One, where does the action of the play take place?
(a) The King's palace.
(b) The Archbishop's hall.
(c) Outside the gates of the Cathedral.
(d) The Cathedral.

5. What, according to the First Tempter, "should be more than biting Time can sever?"
(a) Friendship.
(b) Death.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Hope.

6. What group of people does the Chorus consist of?
(a) The Women of Canturbury.
(b) The Hand of God.
(c) The Poor of Canterbury.
(d) The Ghosts of Canterbury.

7. What does the Messenger say were the last words of Thomas Becket to the King of England before the Archbishop's exile?
(a) My Lord, I leave you as a man, whom you shall not see again for seven years.
(b) My Lord, I leave you as a man, whom you shall see again as an angel.
(c) My Lord, I leave you as a man whom in this life I shall not see again.
(d) My Lord, I leave England, a land I shall not see again.

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

9. Why is the fourth visitor the most successful Tempter?
(a) He helps Beckett find peace.
(b) He makes peace between Beckett and the King.
(c) He voices Beckett's own desires.
(d) He represents the people.

10. What does Beckett claim the Fourth Tempter offers?
(a) Hopes that Die.
(b) An End to Suffering.
(c) Dreams to Damnation.
(d) Promises of Nothing.

11. How does the Second Tempter claim real power is purchased?
(a) At price of an uncertain quantity.
(b) At price of his immortal soul.
(c) At price of a certain submission.
(d) At price of his devotion to God.

12. What are the priests eager to know once the Messenger has delivered his initial message?
(a) How much time they have before the Archbishop arrives.
(b) If the King has learned of the Archbishop's return from France.
(c) If the King and the Archbishop have made peace.
(d) Where the Archbishop is staying.

13. 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.

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

15. What position did Becket resign when he was made Archbishop?
(a) Chancellor.
(b) King.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Ambassador.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who states that "Power is present. Holiness hereafter?"

2. What does the First Priest compare the women of Canterbury to?

3. When will the First Tempter remember Becket?

4. Who does Becket say saved him from the wrath of his enemies?

5. Fill in the blank: "I leave you to the pleasure of your __________, Which will have to be paid for at ______________."

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