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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many conditions that "often look alike / Yet differ completely" does the speaker discuss in Part III of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?
(a) Three.
(b) Nine.
(c) Two.
(d) Seven.

3. Whose hands wove the "intolerable shirt of flame" in Part IV of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?
(a) Death.
(b) Love.
(c) Fire.
(d) Torment.

4. In the first stanza of Part IV of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", what do time and the bell do?
(a) Clutch and cling.
(b) Bury the day.
(c) Answer light to light.
(d) Carry the sun away.

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

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

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) Fire.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Sapience.
(d) Spittle.

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

9. 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) Definition.
(d) Love.

10. 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.

11. In Part I of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", into what does the "door we never opened" lead?
(a) A castle of thought.
(b) A rose-garden.
(c) A new life.
(d) The past.

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

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

14. How many male voices speak in the third chorus of 'The Rock'?
(a) Seven.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

15. In Part II of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", it is said that what two things are reconciled among the stars?
(a) Man and man.
(b) Truth and judgment.
(c) The lion and the lamb.
(d) The boarhound and the boar.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part III of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages", the speaker wishes the voyagers not "fare well," but what?

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

3. What sort bird calls through the fog at the end of "Marina"?

4. Which of the following is NOT an attitude towards Christmas which the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" states may be ignored?

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

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