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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "To the Indians Who Died in Africa," whom should a man see in the dust in front of his own door at sunset?
(a) His grandson.
(b) His children.
(c) His wife.
(d) His neighbor.

2. If the eyes spoken of in "Eyes that last I saw in tears" outlast the tears, in what will they hold the speaker?
(a) Derision.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Love.
(d) Definition.

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

4. The last line of Part III of "Four Quartets: East Coker" states that "where you are is" where?
(a) Where you are not.
(b) Where you will be.
(c) Where you have been.
(d) Where you are.

5. 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) Distraction.
(c) Mortality.
(d) Meaning.

6. Between what two things are "Whispers and small laughter" found in "Marina"?
(a) Memories and future joys.
(b) Leaves and hurrying feet.
(c) Water and ice.
(d) Fire and heat.

7. How many weeks leave a year does "Arthur Edward Cyril Parker" receive from his job as a telephone operator in "Difficulties of a Statesman"?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

8. What do the seams need in "Marina"?
(a) Rending.
(b) Finishing.
(c) Tightening.
(d) Caulking.

9. How many characters are in the fragment of a prologue?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Eight.

10. What is said in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker" to be "our only food"?
(a) The care of lovers.
(b) The bloody flesh.
(c) The substance of Adam.
(d) The hated medicine.

11. Whom does the speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" think is a "strong brown god"?
(a) The river.
(b) The Boston fog.
(c) The earth.
(d) The sea.

12. Where, in Part II of "Four Quartets: East Coker", have the houses all gone?
(a) Under the sea.
(b) Under the hill.
(c) Into oblivion.
(d) Over the mountain.

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

14. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?
(a) The ten-thousandth.
(b) The hundredth.
(c) The fiftieth.
(d) The eightieth.

15. What is "inaccessible by the young" in "Lines for an Old Man"?
(a) The laying bare of the tooth of wit.
(b) The reflection of the golden eye.
(c) The truth of love.
(d) The hissing over the arched tongue.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the sixth chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that it is hard for those who have never known persecution or a Christian to believe what?

2. Where is the speaker at the end of "Four Quartets: East Coker" according to Part I?

3. What object is the speaker of "Marina" considering when he states that the object is "less clear and clearer"?

4. To whom is the praise directed in the tenth chorus of 'The Rock'?

5. What is the name of the man who phones Doris in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?

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