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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 grandson.
(c) His neighbor.
(d) His wife.

4. Where is the speaker at the end of "Four Quartets: East Coker" according to Part I?
(a) His love.
(b) His mind.
(c) His heart.
(d) His beginning.

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

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

7. What sort of game are the women in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" playing?
(a) A card game.
(b) A game with dice.
(c) A word game.
(d) A drawing game.

8. 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.

9. What is the name of the man who phones Doris in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?
(a) Willthon.
(b) Foster.
(c) Ardon.
(d) Pereira.

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

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

12. Who wonders at the tree in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The pagan.
(b) The idiot.
(c) The child.
(d) The priest.

13. How many weeks leave a year does "Arthur Edward Cyril Parker" receive from his job as a telephone operator in "Difficulties of a Statesman"?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following are the lines of the fifth of the "Five Finger Exercises" addressed?

2. What in Part V of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton" is said to be "itself unmoving, / Only the cause and end of movement"?

3. Where are children's voices heard in the Landscape of New Hampshire?

4. What is felt, in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker", beneath the "bleeding hands"?

5. To whom is the praise directed in the tenth chorus of 'The Rock'?

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