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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part II of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", it is said that what two things are reconciled among the stars?
(a) Truth and judgment.
(b) Man and man.
(c) The boarhound and the boar.
(d) The lion and the lamb.

2. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The beginning.
(b) The second coming.
(c) The first man.
(d) The end of the world.

3. What two things are made one in the "crowned knot of fire" discussed at the end of Part V of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?
(a) Hell and the devil.
(b) The true and the good.
(c) The living and the dead.
(d) The fire and the rose.

4. Where is the speaker at the end of "Four Quartets: East Coker" according to Part I?
(a) His beginning.
(b) His love.
(c) His mind.
(d) His heart.

5. What word is repeated at the end of "Difficulties of a Statesman"?
(a) Power.
(b) Shantih.
(c) Resign.
(d) Rejoice.

6. What is the reader implored not to hope to find behind the white well in the third Landscape?
(a) The broken branch.
(b) The white hart.
(c) Broken steel.
(d) Memories of pride.

7. To whom does the speaker say Cape Ann, the last Landscape, truly belongs?
(a) The sea gulls.
(b) The bullbat.
(c) The sailors.
(d) The sharks.

8. Who wonders at the tree in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The pagan.
(b) The idiot.
(c) The child.
(d) The priest.

9. What occurred in the past of the location of the fourth Landscape?
(a) A tidal wave.
(b) Truth.
(c) A marriage.
(d) A carnival.

10. What reality does the poem attempt to convey behind the impressive display of the "Triumphal March"?
(a) The temporality of power.
(b) The inevitability of death.
(c) The fecundity of love.
(d) The frivolity of war.

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

12. In "To Walter de la Mare," when do the ghosts return?
(a) Never.
(b) Twilight.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Dawn.

13. Where does the "golden vision" reappear in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?
(a) Death's other kingdom.
(b) Under the red rock.
(c) Death's dream kingdom.
(d) The wold.

14. In Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", it is said that "time-ridden faces" are distracted from their distractions by what?
(a) Hope.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Distraction.
(d) Mortality.

15. The speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" wonders if whom meant that "the future is a faded song" in Part III?
(a) Muhammad.
(b) Krishna.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Christ.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The juice of what does Mr. Hodgson press on "his palate fine" in "Five Finger Exercises"?

3. In Part II of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding", the death of hope and despair is the death of what?

4. Which of the following have not "become unsubstantial" in "Marina"?

5. 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"?

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