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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date does the Interlude take place?
(a) December 24th.
(b) December 29th.
(c) December 25th.
(d) December 30th.

2. What is NOT one of the ways Beckett defines peace?
(a) A wife singing to her children.
(b) Barons at peace with the King.
(c) Drinking wine with a friend at a table.
(d) The Pope at peace with the King.

3. Which is NOT an adjective you might use to define Beckett's sermon?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Accepting.
(c) Ominous.
(d) Bitter.

4. What does Beckett believe about the peace that the world was promised?
(a) Nothing, he and the people of Canterbury contnue to lead mundane lives.
(b) It's laughable since no one has ever felt that peace they were promised.
(c) It's frightening since there have been no angels seen since.
(d) It's strange since the world has constantly been at war.

5. What, according to Beckett, is reenacted during Mass?
(a) The Passion and Death of Christ.
(b) The Birth of Christ.
(c) The Resurrection of Christ.
(d) The Miracles of Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would be the most likely reaction of the Canterbury people that this is Beckett's last sermon?

2. What is another way Beckett refuses to define a martyr?

3. Which specific Canterbury martyr does Beckett ask the congregation to remember?

4. Why does Beckett believe we should celebrate martyrs?

5. What are the words Beckett quotes from the Bible?

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