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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the answer to the question in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "Who then devised the torment"?
(a) Love.
(b) The dove.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Fire.

2. With what do "we challenge / The first-met stranger in the waning dusk," according to the speaker in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) Affected nonchalance.
(b) A curious glance.
(c) Pointed scrutiny.
(d) A brave face.

3. 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) Christ.
(b) Siva.
(c) Arjuna.
(d) Artemis.

4. Describing the correct cohesion of language, the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding" describes the "common word exact without vulgarity, / The formal word precise but not" what?
(a) Periphrastic.
(b) Pedantic.
(c) Insular.
(d) Pointless.

5. What is the "it" in "The Dry Salvages," Part II's final clause, "is what it always was"?
(a) The halcyon day.
(b) Time.
(c) The sudden fury.
(d) The ragged rock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?

2. The people spoken of in Part III, of "Little Gidding," who are "All touched by a common genius," are united in what?

3. What is heard under "the oppression of the silent fog" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

4. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. What do the passengers watch widen behind them on the "deck of the drumming liner" in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the significance of the discussion of the past in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" (beginning with "It seems, as one becomes older" and ending with "Over the shoulder, towards the primitive terror").

2. What is meant in Part III of "Little Gidding" by "We cannot revive old factions / We cannot restore old policies / Or follow an antique drum"?

3. What characterizes the "gifts reserved for age" which the interlocutor of Part II of "Little Gidding" describes to the poem's speaker?

4. With whom does the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" converse, and what is their relationship to one another, on the literal level?

5. What does the speaker mean in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" by "The tolling bell / Measures time not our time"?

6. What is the "real destination" of the sailors, as described at the end of Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

7. Why would anyone passing "this way" "have to put off / Sense and notion" in Part I of "Little Gidding"?

8. What is the purpose of the lines in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" from "To communicate with Mars, converse with spirits," to "Whether on the shores of Asia, or in the Edgware Road"?

9. What is signified by the statement, in the final part of "Little Gidding," that "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time"?

10. Why is the "strong brown god" of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" "almost forgotten / By the dwellers in cities"?

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