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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Beckett believe that the local bishops would not support a power move like regaining his Chancellorship?
(a) Because he excommunicated them.
(b) Because the Pope would not allow it.
(c) Because the King would not allow it.
(d) Because the Pope excommunicated Beckett.

2. What is the first action that the Second Priest wants to take to welcome the Archbishop back to Canterbury?
(a) Lead a prayer.
(b) Throw a celebration in his honor.
(c) Have a feast.
(d) Have the fires lit in his rooms.

3. What important message does the Messenger convey to the Priests?
(a) The Archbishop has left France.
(b) The King has ordered the execution of Thomas Becket.
(c) The Pope has excommunicated the King
(d) The Archbishop has arrived at the city.

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

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

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

8. What does the Chorus claim is their purpose in the action of the play?
(a) To prevent a murder.
(b) To witness the events and take no action.
(c) To warn Thomas Becket.
(d) To serve the Priests of the Cathedral.

9. After the first scene featuring the three Priests, the Chorus speaks again. What do they wish the Archbishop to do?
(a) Turn the wheel.
(b) Make peace with the King.
(c) Return to France.
(d) Bless them.

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

11. What month does the Second Tempter say Beckett will have power?
(a) The first.
(b) The last to the last.
(c) The first to the second.
(d) The last from the first.

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

13. What doesn't the Third Priest see in "the art of temporal government?"
(a) Violence.
(b) Frequent Malversation.
(c) Duplicity.
(d) Intrigue.

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

15. 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 in this life I shall not see again.
(c) My Lord, I leave you as a man, whom you shall see again as an angel.
(d) My Lord, I leave England, a land I shall not see again.

Short Answer Questions

1. When will the First Tempter remember Becket?

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

3. How does Thomas Beckett's thought end?: "If the Archbishop cannot trust the Throne/ He has good cause to trust none but _____________"

4. What does the Second Tempter tell Beckett he will be like if he continues on course?

5. In what year does Murder in the Cathedral take place?

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