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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" think is a "strong brown god"?
(a) The sea.
(b) The Boston fog.
(c) The earth.
(d) The river.

2. In "Defense of the Islands," what is man's "newest form of gamble with death"?
(a) Air combat.
(b) Spiritual depravity.
(c) Submarine combat.
(d) Modern warfare.

3. In Part II of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding", the death of hope and despair is the death of what?
(a) Water.
(b) Fire.
(c) Earth.
(d) Air.

4. In the second stanza of Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", into what world does the speaker say to descend?
(a) The world of spirit.
(b) The world of perpetual solitude.
(c) The world of sense.
(d) The world of fance.

5. What is "inaccessible by the young" in "Lines for an Old Man"?
(a) The hissing over the arched tongue.
(b) The reflection of the golden eye.
(c) The truth of love.
(d) The laying bare of the tooth of wit.

6. The speaker asks if it is a dream or something else when the surface of a river looks like a what that "sweats with tears"?
(a) Angel.
(b) Face.
(c) Eye.
(d) Mother.

7. What sort bird calls through the fog at the end of "Marina"?
(a) A woodthrush.
(b) A raven.
(c) A bluejay.
(d) A cardinal.

8. Between what two things were the bells swinging in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) Life and death.
(b) Love and hate.
(c) Time and eternity.
(d) Truth and falsity.

9. With what did the old master met in Part II of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding" leave the poem's speaker?
(a) A faded piece of sterling.
(b) A kind of valediction.
(c) A gracious benediction.
(d) An admonishing.

10. The juice of what does Mr. Hodgson press on "his palate fine" in "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) Strawberries.
(b) Gooseberry tart.
(c) Fresh young geese.
(d) Fresh cantaloupe.

11. In the second chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that the people will neglect what?
(a) The Faith.
(b) The mind.
(c) The body.
(d) The Temple.

12. What object is the speaker of "Marina" considering when he states that the object is "less clear and clearer"?
(a) A voice.
(b) A pulse.
(c) A painting.
(d) A face.

13. What sort of game are the women in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" playing?
(a) A game with dice.
(b) A word game.
(c) A drawing game.
(d) A card game.

14. In the second of the "Five Finger Exercises", what stands in the brown field?
(a) A scarecrow.
(b) A man.
(c) A tree.
(d) A century.

15. What word is notably repeated throughout the first half of "Marina"?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Love.
(c) Water.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the characters are women in the fragment of a prologue?

2. Where, in Part II of "Four Quartets: East Coker", have the houses all gone?

3. What is felt, in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker", beneath the "bleeding hands"?

4. What do people enjoy about marches like the one described in the "Triumphal March"?

5. What two things are made one in the "crowned knot of fire" discussed at the end of Part V of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?

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