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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 laying bare of the tooth of wit.
(d) The love of truth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Part I of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", into what does the "door we never opened" lead?
(a) The past.
(b) A rose-garden.
(c) A new life.
(d) A castle of thought.

10. Where are children's voices heard in the Landscape of New Hampshire?
(a) The dining hall.
(b) The bedroom.
(c) The front yard.
(d) The orchard.

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

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

13. 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) Eye.
(c) Mother.
(d) Face.

14. In "Defense of the Islands," what is man's "newest form of gamble with death"?
(a) Submarine combat.
(b) Air combat.
(c) Spiritual depravity.
(d) Modern warfare.

15. In the second of the "Five Finger Exercises", what stands in the brown field?
(a) A scarecrow.
(b) A century.
(c) A man.
(d) A tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, in the eighth chorus of 'The Rock,' is said to have spoken of the shame of Jerusalem?

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

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

4. Whose carol and crown of fire does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" remember?

5. What prayer does the sea bell say perpetually in Part IV of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages"?

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