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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What did the wind break when it sprang up in The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) The walls.
(b) The curtains.
(c) The echoes.
(d) The bells.

3. In the second stanza of "Eyes that last I saw in tears", the speaker says that the eyes he shall not see again are eyes of what?
(a) Diminution.
(b) Derision.
(c) Decision.
(d) Division.

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

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

6. In Part III of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages", the speaker wishes the voyagers not "fare well," but what?
(a) Bon voyage.
(b) Fare forward.
(c) Fair well.
(d) Adieu.

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

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

9. In the second stanza of Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", into what world does the speaker say to descend?
(a) The world of perpetual solitude.
(b) The world of fance.
(c) The world of sense.
(d) The world of spirit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?

3. How many of the characters are women in the fragment of a prologue?

4. In the first stanza of Part IV of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", what do time and the bell do?

5. What word is notably repeated throughout the first half of "Marina"?

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