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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Defense of the Islands," what is man's "newest form of gamble with death"?
(a) Air combat.
(b) Submarine combat.
(c) Modern warfare.
(d) Spiritual depravity.

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

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

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

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

6. Where does the "golden vision" reappear in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?
(a) Under the red rock.
(b) Death's other kingdom.
(c) Death's dream kingdom.
(d) The wold.

7. Across what river does the "camp fire shake with alien spears" in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) The crystalline river.
(b) The blackened river.
(c) Death's other river.
(d) Life's faded river.

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

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

10. Which of the following is NOT an attitude towards Christmas which the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" states may be ignored?
(a) The torpid.
(b) The patently commercial.
(c) The rowdy.
(d) The jovial.

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

12. What is felt, in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker", beneath the "bleeding hands"?
(a) Frigid purgatorial fires.
(b) The enigma of the fever chart.
(c) The sharp compassion of the healer's art.
(d) The absolute paternal care.

13. 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"?
(a) Angel.
(b) Eye.
(c) Face.
(d) Mother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say is not more irritable than he in "Lines for an Old Man"?

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

3. If the eyes spoken of in "Eyes that last I saw in tears" outlast the tears, in what will they hold the speaker?

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

5. In "A Note on War Poetry," what two forces are "beyond control by experiment"?

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