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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the second stanza of "Eyes that last I saw in tears", the speaker says that the eyes he shall not see again are eyes of what?
(a) Derision.
(b) Division.
(c) Decision.
(d) Diminution.

2. In what kingdom is the speaker of "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) Life's dead kingdom.
(b) Death's ancient kingdom.
(c) Time's timeless kingdom.
(d) Death's dream kingdom

3. The enemy in "Lines for an Old Man" is said to be dangling from what?
(a) The hanging tree.
(b) The fruited tree.
(c) The friendly tree.
(d) The vicious tree.

4. 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"?
(a) Angel.
(b) Face.
(c) Mother.
(d) Eye.

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

6. To which of the following are the lines of the fifth of the "Five Finger Exercises" addressed?
(a) Mirza Murad Ali Beg.
(b) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.
(c) A Yorkshire Terrier.
(d) Mr. Eliot.

7. What is not more still than when the speaker of "Lines for an Old Man" smells "the enemy"?
(a) The palpitations of the heart.
(b) The writhing fool.
(c) The duck's wobbling head.
(d) The whipping tail.

8. What is felt, in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker", beneath the "bleeding hands"?
(a) The absolute paternal care.
(b) The enigma of the fever chart.
(c) Frigid purgatorial fires.
(d) The sharp compassion of the healer's art.

9. Between what two things were the bells swinging in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Time and eternity.
(c) Life and death.
(d) Truth and falsity.

10. 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) The true and the good.
(b) The fire and the rose.
(c) The living and the dead.
(d) Hell and the devil.

11. In the second chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that the people will neglect what?
(a) The mind.
(b) The Temple.
(c) The body.
(d) The Faith.

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

13. What is "more affectionate than hate" in "Lines for an Old Man"?
(a) The hissing over the arched tongue.
(b) The relfection of the golden eye.
(c) The love of truth.
(d) The laying bare of the tooth of wit.

14. How many of the characters are women in the fragment of a prologue?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Nine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where, in "To the Indians Who Died in Africa," is man's destination said to be?

2. In Part III of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages", the speaker wishes the voyagers not "fare well," but what?

3. What occurred in the past of the location of the fourth Landscape?

4. What is "inaccessible by the young" in "Lines for an Old Man"?

5. What sort bird calls through the fog at the end of "Marina"?

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