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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) The theologian.
(b) The saint.
(c) The metaphysician.
(d) The dying.

2. The speaker sees what, but not what in the first stanza of "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?
(a) The kingdom, but not the river.
(b) The eyes, but not the tears.
(c) Death, but not the dream.
(d) The tears, but not the eyes.

3. The enemy in "Lines for an Old Man" is said to be dangling from what?
(a) The friendly tree.
(b) The hanging tree.
(c) The fruited tree.
(d) The vicious tree.

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

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

6. 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 grandson.
(b) His children.
(c) His neighbor.
(d) His wife.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The beginning.
(b) The first man.
(c) The second coming.
(d) The end of the world.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the speaker at the end of "Four Quartets: East Coker" according to Part I?

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

3. What is said in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker" to be "our only food"?

4. What prayer does the sea bell say perpetually in Part IV of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages"?

5. Where, in Part II of "Four Quartets: East Coker", have the houses all gone?

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