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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beckett believe about the peace that the world was promised?
(a) It's strange since the world has constantly been at war.
(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) Nothing, he and the people of Canterbury contnue to lead mundane lives.

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

3. What literary tool does T.S. Eliot use throughout the Interlude?
(a) Free verse.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) String of consciousness.

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

5. Why does Beckett tell the people that he may never preach to them again?
(a) He is out of ideas.
(b) He doesn't want to give them false hope.
(c) He is too sad to speak any more.
(d) He believes he will be murdered soon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Beckett close his sermon?

2. Knowing what you know about the situation Beckett is in and his character traits, what might be the most likely way to describe Beckett's state of being after his last speech to his flock?

3. Who might be the least likely character to show up to Beckett's sermon?

4. Beckett asks the congregation to think about the meaning of what word?

5. Who was NOT mentioned in Beckett's sermon?

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