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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What word is repeated at the end of "Difficulties of a Statesman"?
(a) Rejoice.
(b) Power.
(c) Shantih.
(d) Resign.

4. What does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" say should not be forgotten in later experience?
(a) The first-remembered Christmas present.
(b) The first-remembered Christmas Tree.
(c) The last-remembered Christmas Tree.
(d) The first-remembered Christmas meal.

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

6. 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.

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

8. At what door might the speaker of "Eyes that last I saw in tears" see the eyes again?
(a) The door of death's dream kingdom.
(b) The door of dreaming.
(c) The door of death's other kingdom.
(d) The door of life's long hall.

9. In the first stanza of Part IV of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", what do time and the bell do?
(a) Answer light to light.
(b) Clutch and cling.
(c) Bury the day.
(d) Carry the sun away.

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

11. 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) Love.
(c) Definition.
(d) Contempt.

12. What do people enjoy about marches like the one described in the "Triumphal March"?
(a) The promise of a better future.
(b) The acquisition of goods.
(c) The loss of human life.
(d) The spectacle of power.

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

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

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

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

3. What is "more affectionate than hate" in "Lines for an Old Man"?

4. In the second chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that the people will neglect what?

5. Across what river do the Tartar horsemen shake their spears in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

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