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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the speaker say is not more irritable than he in "Lines for an Old Man"?
(a) A lion.
(b) A mother deprived of her children.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A disturbed ant-hill.

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

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

6. 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.

7. In the second chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that the people will neglect what?
(a) The mind.
(b) The Faith.
(c) The Temple.
(d) The body.

8. What is not more still than when the speaker of "Lines for an Old Man" smells "the enemy"?
(a) The writhing fool.
(b) The palpitations of the heart.
(c) The duck's wobbling head.
(d) The whipping tail.

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) Love.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Definition.
(d) Derision.

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

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

12. What two things are made one in the "crowned knot of fire" discussed at the end of Part V of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?
(a) The fire and the rose.
(b) The true and the good.
(c) Hell and the devil.
(d) The living and the dead.

13. 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) Division.
(c) Decision.
(d) Derision.

14. 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 sense.
(b) The world of perpetual solitude.
(c) The world of spirit.
(d) The world of fance.

15. What does the dullard in "Lines for an Old Man" know?
(a) That all men must die.
(b) That the day is done.
(c) That he is mad.
(d) That there is no sun.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What occurred in the past of the location of the fourth Landscape?

3. How many weeks leave a year does "Arthur Edward Cyril Parker" receive from his job as a telephone operator in "Difficulties of a Statesman"?

4. Where does the "golden vision" reappear in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?

5. In Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", it is said that "time-ridden faces" are distracted from their distractions by what?

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