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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what year does Murder in the Cathedral take place?
(a) 1077.
(b) 1070.
(c) 1170.
(d) 1710.

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

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

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

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

8. What is one thing the Third Tempter and his party want from Beckett?
(a) The blessing of God.
(b) Favor from the Church.
(c) Money.
(d) Happiness for the People of England.

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

10. What does the Messenger call the relationship between the King and the Archbishop?
(a) A silly affair.
(b) A peaceful affair.
(c) A violent affair.
(d) A patched-up affair.

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

12. What is the feeling of the general public in regard to the Archbishop's return?
(a) Enthusiasm.
(b) Fear.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Apprehension.

13. How does the Third Tempter describe himself?
(a) A rough and angry follower of the king
(b) A man who is rich in spirit
(c) A rough, straightforward Englishman.
(d) A surly English peasant

14. What is it that the Second Tempter offers Becket?
(a) A new love.
(b) His former political position.
(c) A new life.
(d) The English throne.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Third Tempter represent?

2. Finish the thought of the First Tempter: "A man will often love what he ______."

3. What does Beckett claim the Fourth Tempter offers?

4. What metaphor does the Third Priest use to compare the relationship between the King and the Archbishop?

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

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