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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 have been.
(c) Where you will be.
(d) Where you are.

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

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

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

6. Apprehension of the point of intersection of the timeless with time is the occupation of whom, according to Part V of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The metaphysician.
(b) The saint.
(c) The dying.
(d) The theologian.

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

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

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

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

11. How many men appear in the fragment of an Agon in the "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?
(a) Four.
(b) Seven.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

12. 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) The true and the good.
(b) The fire and the rose.
(c) Hell and the devil.
(d) The living and the dead.

13. To whom are the lines of the first of the "Five Finger Exercises" written?
(a) A Duck in the Park.
(b) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.
(c) A Yorkshire Terrier.
(d) A Persian Cat.

14. The speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" wonders if whom meant that "the future is a faded song" in Part III?
(a) Christ.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Muhammad.
(d) Krishna.

15. What does the dullard in "Lines for an Old Man" know?
(a) That the day is done.
(b) That he is mad.
(c) That there is no sun.
(d) That all men must die.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part II of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", it is said that what two things are reconciled among the stars?

2. In "A Dedication to My Wife," it is said that lovers "babble the same speech without need of" what?

3. With what did the old master met in Part II of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding" leave the poem's speaker?

4. In the second stanza of Part V of "Four Quartets: East Coker", where is it stated that one starts from?

5. What is felt, in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker", beneath the "bleeding hands"?

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