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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Between what two things are "Whispers and small laughter" found in "Marina"?
(a) Fire and heat.
(b) Memories and future joys.
(c) Leaves and hurrying feet.
(d) Water and ice.

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

3. 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) Hope.
(c) Mortality.
(d) Distraction.

4. Whom does the poet shall "try" man's well-preserved complacency in the third of the "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) The dog.
(b) The light.
(c) The dark.
(d) The worm.

5. What object in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" is related to a coffin?
(a) An image of a flowerbox.
(b) The two of spades.
(c) The word "coffer."
(d) A ten-sided playing dice.

6. In "To Walter de la Mare," when do the ghosts return?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Twilight.
(d) Never.

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

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

9. 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 living and the dead.
(c) The fire and the rose.
(d) The true and the good.

10. 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?
(a) Tales of Christian persecution.
(b) The security of Christianity.
(c) The defeat of violence.
(d) The truth of the Faith.

11. In "A Note on War Poetry," what two forces are "beyond control by experiment"?
(a) Dreaming and thinking.
(b) Faith and freedom.
(c) Nature and the Spirit.
(d) Life and Death.

12. In what kingdom is the speaker of "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) Life's dead kingdom.
(b) Death's ancient kingdom.
(c) Time's timeless kingdom.
(d) Death's dream kingdom

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

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

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

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. The speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" wonders if whom meant that "the future is a faded song" in Part III?

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

4. What occurred in the past of the location of the fourth Landscape?

5. What is celebrated by those marching into the city in "Triumphal March"?

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