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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Part I of "Little Gidding" states that there is "no wind, but" what in the "dark time of the year"?
(a) Blinding specks of light.
(b) An answer on the air.
(c) Pentecostal fire.
(d) Silent howling.

2. The last two lines of Part IV of "Little Gidding" state that "We only live, only suspire / Consumed by either" what or what?
(a) Love or hate.
(b) Water or fire.
(c) Truth or lies.
(d) Fire or fire.

3. The speaker asks in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" when there will be an end to "the unprayable / Prayer at the calamitous" what?
(a) Amelioration.
(b) Assumption.
(c) Annunciation.
(d) Apocalypse.

4. The speaker in the "The Dry Salvages"'s third part, enjoins his auditor to consider the future and the past with what?
(a) A Christian mind.
(b) A broad perspective.
(c) A skeptical eye.
(d) An equal mind.

5. By whom does the speaker say that the "brown god is almost forgotten" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) City dwellers.
(b) Farmers.
(c) All mankind.
(d) Kings.

6. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The sea.
(b) The sky.
(c) The river.
(d) The horizon.

7. The speaker's interlocutor in Part II of "Little Gidding" says that "next year's words await another" what?
(a) Letter.
(b) Dictionary.
(c) Voice.
(d) Year.

8. The speaker states in the third part of "Little Gidding" that "We cannot restore policies / Or follow" what?
(a) An outdated faith.
(b) An inconstant beat.
(c) An antique drum.
(d) A crippled old man.

9. The speaker says in Part I of "Little Gidding" that "this is the nearest, in place and time, / Now and in England." To what is "this" the nearest?
(a) The soul's desolation.
(b) The intersection of time and timelessness.
(c) The world's end.
(d) The heavenly spheres.

10. The speaker says in Part I of "Little Gidding" that there is a "windless cold that is the heart's" what?
(a) Chill.
(b) Fire.
(c) Death.
(d) Heat.

11. From where does the "wailing warning " of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" come?
(a) The approaching headland.
(b) The waxing storm.
(c) The dwindling sunlight.
(d) The receding shoreline.

12. The third part of "Little Gidding" says that Sin is what?
(a) Inexpedient.
(b) Behovely.
(c) Impressive.
(d) Homely.

13. "But to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time, is an occupation for" whom according to Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The philosopher.
(b) The common man.
(c) The saint.
(d) The mystic.

14. The final portion of Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" sees the speaker implore prayer on behalf of those who end "wherever cannot reach them the sound of the sea bell's" what?
(a) Reprieve from earthly hell.
(b) Homeward swell.
(c) Perpetual angelus.
(d) Eternal hymn.

15. According to the speaker in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," what he calls "Time the destroyer" is also what?
(a) The Sempiternal Wheel.
(b) Time the preserver.
(c) The Ageless Force.
(d) Time the destroyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding," "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive" where?

2. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?

4. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. In the first line of Part III of "Little Gidding," it is said that there are how many "conditions which often look alike / Yet differ completely"?

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