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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The row of family portraits, "dingy busts," in "Difficulties of a Statesman" all look remarkably what?
(a) Morose.
(b) French.
(c) Roman.
(d) Jovial.

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

3. In the second stanza of Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", into what world does the speaker say to descend?
(a) The world of fance.
(b) The world of spirit.
(c) The world of sense.
(d) The world of perpetual solitude.

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

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

6. In the fourth Landscape, which of the following does the road NOT wind?
(a) Langour of broken steel.
(b) Clamour of confused wrong.
(c) Listlessness of ancient war.
(d) Anger of ignored cry.

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

8. The speaker of "Eyes that last I saw in tears" says that what he sees, but that what he does not see, is his what?
(a) Terror.
(b) Affliction.
(c) Dream.
(d) Joy.

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

10. What prayer does the sea bell say perpetually in Part IV of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The Lord's Prayer.
(b) The Memorare.
(c) The Angelus.
(d) The Doxologia Minor.

11. What sort of game are the women in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" playing?
(a) A word game.
(b) A card game.
(c) A game with dice.
(d) A drawing game.

12. What is said in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker" to be "our only food"?
(a) The care of lovers.
(b) The hated medicine.
(c) The bloody flesh.
(d) The substance of Adam.

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

14. In the first chorus of 'The Rock,' what is said to soar in the summit of Heaven?
(a) The Eagle.
(b) The Falcon.
(c) The Angel.
(d) The Spirit.

15. In Part II of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding", the death of hope and despair is the death of what?
(a) Earth.
(b) Water.
(c) Fire.
(d) Air.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT an attitude towards Christmas which the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" states may be ignored?

2. Whom does the speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" think is a "strong brown god"?

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

4. In Part III of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages", the speaker wishes the voyagers not "fare well," but what?

5. 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?

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