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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the second of the "Five Finger Exercises", what stands in the brown field?
(a) A tree.
(b) A century.
(c) A scarecrow.
(d) A man.

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

4. If the eyes spoken of in "Eyes that last I saw in tears" outlast the tears, in what will they hold the speaker?
(a) Definition.
(b) Love.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Derision.

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

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

7. In Part I of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding", it is said that the communication of the dead is tongued with what beyond the language of the living?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Spittle.
(c) Fire.
(d) Sapience.

8. Whose carol and crown of fire does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" remember?
(a) St. Franics.
(b) St. Lucy.
(c) St. Claire.
(d) St. Nicholas.

9. In "To the Indians Who Died in Africa," whom should a man see in the dust in front of his own door at sunset?
(a) His children.
(b) His neighbor.
(c) His grandson.
(d) His wife.

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

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

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

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

14. 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 rowdy.
(b) The patently commercial.
(c) The jovial.
(d) The torpid.

15. Across what river do the Tartar horsemen shake their 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many male voices speak in the third chorus of 'The Rock'?

2. Between what two things are "Whispers and small laughter" found in "Marina"?

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

4. Whose hands wove the "intolerable shirt of flame" in Part IV of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?

5. 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"?

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