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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the God of the bone in Part II of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Christ.
(b) The earth.
(c) Death.
(d) Love.

3. The speaker sees what, but not what in the first stanza of "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?
(a) The tears, but not the eyes.
(b) The kingdom, but not the river.
(c) The eyes, but not the tears.
(d) Death, but not the dream.

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

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

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

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

8. What sort bird calls through the fog at the end of "Marina"?
(a) A cardinal.
(b) A woodthrush.
(c) A bluejay.
(d) A raven.

9. Who is said to be unpleasantly met in the fifth of the "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) Mirza Mura Ali Beg.
(b) Mr. Eliot.
(c) A Yorkshire Terrier.
(d) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.

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

11. What in Part V of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton" is said to be "itself unmoving, / Only the cause and end of movement"?
(a) Time.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Desire.

12. How many male voices speak in the third chorus of 'The Rock'?
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

13. 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.

14. 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 duck's wobbling head.
(c) The whipping tail.
(d) The writhing fool.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. To whom are the lines of the first of the "Five Finger Exercises" written?

3. How many men appear in the fragment of an Agon in the "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?

4. How many conditions that "often look alike / Yet differ completely" does the speaker discuss in Part III of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?

5. In "A Note on War Poetry," what two forces are "beyond control by experiment"?

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