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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the Tempter successful?
(a) Beckett plans for an escape.
(b) Beckett makes peace with the barons.
(c) Beckett makes peace with the King.
(d) Beckett ends up accepting his fate.

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

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

4. Beckett asks the congregation to think about the meaning of what word?
(a) War.
(b) Peace.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) God.

5. What is one way that Beckett defines peace?
(a) The Pope at peace with the King.
(b) The kingdom of England at peace with its neighbors.
(c) The people of Canterbury at peace with their fate.
(d) The entire world at peace with no war in sight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another way Beckett defines peace?

2. Out of the following choices, which would be the least likely reason behind the sermon?

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

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

5. Whose idea is being echoed when Beckett talks of the promise of peace being "a disappointment and a cheat?"

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