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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding," "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive" where?
(a) Where we always were.
(b) Where no one has been before.
(c) Where time is not.
(d) Where we started.

2. The speaker says near the end of Part III of "Little Gidding" that "We have taken from the defeated / What they had to leave us--a" what?
(a) Symbol.
(b) Song.
(c) Vendetta.
(d) Corpse.

3. 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(a) An outdated faith.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) A crippled old man.
(d) An antique drum.

4. The old master whom the speaker encounters states that he is not "eager to rehearse" what in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) The lines of a poem.
(b) His thoughts and theory.
(c) The account of his death.
(d) Their old friendship.

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

6. The speaker says in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "what you thought you came for / Is only a" what?
(a) Miracle.
(b) Shell.
(c) Falsehood.
(d) Tomb.

7. In the final sentence of the third part of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says, "Not fare well, but fare" what," voyagers"?
(a) Forward.
(b) Fruitful.
(c) Future.
(d) Fond.

8. "Water and fire deride" that which "we denied," in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) Our weakness.
(b) The earth.
(c) The guilt.
(d) The sacrifice.

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 world's end.
(b) The heavenly spheres.
(c) The intersection of time and timelessness.
(d) The soul's desolation.

10. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Music.
(b) Nature.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Silence.

11. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?
(a) The opprobrius invective.
(b) The murmuring shell of time.
(c) The promontory knives.
(d) The recession of fecundity.

12. 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) Assumption.
(b) Apocalypse.
(c) Amelioration.
(d) Annunciation.

13. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Arjuna.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Christ.
(d) Siva.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?

2. The speaker implores that a prayer be repeated on behalf of whom, in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?

4. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?

5. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

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