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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Across what river does the "camp fire shake with alien spears" in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) The crystalline river.
(b) Life's faded river.
(c) Death's other river.
(d) The blackened river.

2. Whom does the poet shall "try" man's well-preserved complacency in the third of the "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) The light.
(b) The dark.
(c) The worm.
(d) The dog.

3. What object in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" is related to a coffin?
(a) The word "coffer."
(b) A ten-sided playing dice.
(c) The two of spades.
(d) An image of a flowerbox.

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

5. With what did the old master met in Part II of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding" leave the poem's speaker?
(a) A faded piece of sterling.
(b) A kind of valediction.
(c) A gracious benediction.
(d) An admonishing.

6. What image is used as a metaphor in the second Landscape?
(a) A field.
(b) A river.
(c) A marketplace.
(d) A kingdom.

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

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

9. Which of the following have not "become unsubstantial" in "Marina"?
(a) Those who suffer the ecstasy of the animals.
(b) Those who sit in the sty of contentment.
(c) Those who sharpen the tooth of the dog.
(d) Those who glide with the joy of the lark.

10. 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) Face.
(b) Eye.
(c) Angel.
(d) Mother.

11. In "A Dedication to My Wife," it is said that lovers "babble the same speech without need of" what?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Truth.
(d) Voices.

12. 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) Definition.
(d) Love.

13. What is the name of the man who phones Doris in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?
(a) Foster.
(b) Pereira.
(c) Willthon.
(d) Ardon.

14. Which of the following is NOT an attitude towards Christmas which the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" states may be ignored?
(a) The jovial.
(b) The patently commercial.
(c) The rowdy.
(d) The torpid.

15. In Part III of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages", the speaker wishes the voyagers not "fare well," but what?
(a) Bon voyage.
(b) Fare forward.
(c) Adieu.
(d) Fair well.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the "golden vision" reappear in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?

3. What reality does the poem attempt to convey behind the impressive display of the "Triumphal March"?

4. Who is said to be unpleasantly met in the fifth of the "Five Finger Exercises"?

5. In Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", it is said that "time-ridden faces" are distracted from their distractions by what?

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