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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Across what river do the Tartar horsemen shake their spears in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) Life's faded river.
(b) Death's other river.
(c) The crystalline river.
(d) The blackened river.

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

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

5. In the second stanza of Part V of "Four Quartets: East Coker", where is it stated that one starts from?
(a) Birth.
(b) Love.
(c) Home.
(d) Death.

6. What object is the speaker of "Marina" considering when he states that the object is "less clear and clearer"?
(a) A pulse.
(b) A voice.
(c) A face.
(d) A painting.

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

8. What occurred in the past of the location of the fourth Landscape?
(a) Truth.
(b) A marriage.
(c) A tidal wave.
(d) A carnival.

9. Who, in the eighth chorus of 'The Rock,' is said to have spoken of the shame of Jerusalem?
(a) John the Baptist.
(b) Christ.
(c) Peter the Hermit.
(d) Melchisidek.

10. What reality does the poem attempt to convey behind the impressive display of the "Triumphal March"?
(a) The inevitability of death.
(b) The temporality of power.
(c) The fecundity of love.
(d) The frivolity of war.

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

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

13. Whom does the speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" think is a "strong brown god"?
(a) The sea.
(b) The river.
(c) The Boston fog.
(d) The earth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What in Part V of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton" is said to be "itself unmoving, / Only the cause and end of movement"?

2. What did the wind break when it sprang up in The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

3. How many weeks leave a year does "Arthur Edward Cyril Parker" receive from his job as a telephone operator in "Difficulties of a Statesman"?

4. The last line of Part III of "Four Quartets: East Coker" states that "where you are is" where?

5. What sort of game are the women in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" playing?

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