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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the Interlude set?
(a) The gates of the Cathedral.
(b) The Archbishop's Hall.
(c) The King's palace.
(d) The Cathedral.

2. What may be one of the reasons for this sermon?
(a) To frighten his followers into submission.
(b) To explain his actions to himself and his followers.
(c) To help him forgivethe King.
(d) To make the congregation sad.

3. Why does Beckett believe the thought of the angels bringing peace is strange?
(a) The world was already a happy place.
(b) The world has been struck by war.
(c) The angels ceased to appear
(d) No one listened to them.

4. What, according to Beckett, is celebrated that day?
(a) The Miracles of Christ.
(b) The Birth of Christ.
(c) The Resurrection of Christ.
(d) The Passion and Death of Christ

5. What is the best way to define the style in which T.S. Eliot wrote the Interlude?
(a) Monologue
(b) Poetry
(c) Blank verse.
(d) Dialogue

6. According to Beckett, what is one way you cannot define a martyr?
(a) A man given peace by God.
(b) Someone killed for the glory of God.
(c) An instrument of God.
(d) A Christian killed because he is a Christian.

7. At what time of day does the sermon take place?
(a) Afternoon.
(b) Morning.
(c) Evening.
(d) Midnight.

8. How was the Tempter unsuccessful?
(a) Beckett chooses to live.
(b) Beckett is not dying for the King.
(c) Beckett is not dying for glory.
(d) Beckett is dying for love.

9. What does Beckett ask the audience to remember about Christmas mass?
(a) The love of God.
(b) The hope and peace it offers.
(c) Its sadness and greatness.
(d) Its meaning and mystery.

10. Who is the only one who can bring Beckett peace?
(a) God.
(b) The Tempters..
(c) The Chorus.
(d) The Knights.

11. Looking at the clues in the Interlude, which Tempter proved to be the most successful?
(a) The First.
(b) The Third.
(c) The Fourth.
(d) The Second.

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

13. How does Beckett close his sermon?
(a) In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
(b) In Christ's name.
(c) Peace on earth, and goodwill toward men.
(d) God bless us, every one.

14. What is one of the reasons Beckett would allow himself to be killed?
(a) To prove the King wrong.
(b) To aid in the salvation of man.
(c) For revenge.
(d) For the glory of martyrdom.

15. Why might the public react this way?
(a) They have great love and loyalty for Thomas Beckett.
(b) They don't care what happens to Thomas Beckett.
(c) They hate the English King.
(d) They hate the dictator Archbishop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another way Beckett defines peace?

2. What was NOT one of the events that Becket describes in the lives of the disciples?

3. What is not one of the topics of Beckett's sermon in the Interlude?

4. From what Gospel does Beckett quote in the opening of his sermon?

5. In the opening of the Interlude, how does Beckett describe his sermon to the audience?

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