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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. 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) Arjuna.
(c) Siva.
(d) Artemis.

2. The speaker asserts in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that there "is no end, but" what?
(a) Addition.
(b) A renewal.
(c) Oblivion.
(d) A cycle.

3. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?
(a) The marred foundations of earth.
(b) The parched eviscerate soil.
(c) The water and fire.
(d) The pasture and the weed.

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

5. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?
(a) Time immemorial.
(b) The swell of the sea.
(c) The roots of the earth.
(d) Anxious worried women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is said in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" to be "no healer"?

2. The interlocutor of Part II of "Little Gidding" states that the "Fullfed beast shall kick " what?

3. In the final lines of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says that contentment is found at last "If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too far from the yew-tree) / The life of" what?

4. 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"?

5. The first of the "conditions which often look alike" in Part III of "Little Gidding" is said to be attachment to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the speaker mean when he states, in the last part of "The Dry Salvages," that "Here the impossible union / Of spheres of existence is actual"?

2. What does the speaker mean in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" when he states that, "the future is a faded song, a Royal Rose or a lavender spray / Of wistful regret for those who are not yet here to regret"?

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

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

5. What does the speaker mean in Part I of "Little Gidding" when he states that "This is the spring time / But not in time's covenant"?

6. How is "Time the destroyer" also "time the preserver," as stated in Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?

7. What is meant by the statement in Part II of "Little Gidding" that "Water and fire deride / The sacrifice that we denied"?

8. How can one be "redeemed from fire by fire," as is stated in Part IV of "Little Gidding"?

9. What is meant by the line, "You are not the same people who left that station," in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

10. What is an interpretative way to read the significance of the "ragged rock" being "what it always was," at the end of Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?

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