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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the God of the bone in Part II of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The earth.
(b) Love.
(c) Christ.
(d) Death.

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

3. In the fourth Landscape, which of the following does the road NOT wind?
(a) Langour of broken steel.
(b) Clamour of confused wrong.
(c) Anger of ignored cry.
(d) Listlessness of ancient war.

4. What is said in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker" to be "our only food"?
(a) The hated medicine.
(b) The bloody flesh.
(c) The substance of Adam.
(d) The care of lovers.

5. What image is used as a metaphor in the second Landscape?
(a) A river.
(b) A kingdom.
(c) A marketplace.
(d) A field.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" say should not be forgotten in later experience?

2. What reality does the poem attempt to convey behind the impressive display of the "Triumphal March"?

3. In "To Walter de la Mare," when do the ghosts return?

4. How many conditions that "often look alike / Yet differ completely" does the speaker discuss in Part III of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. For what is the ship in "Marina" a symbolic signifier?

2. In the sixth chorus of 'The Rock,' why is it said that men must build with "the sword in one hand and the trowel in the other"?

3. What characterizes the metaphors used as description of the old man bearing the "tooth of wit" in "Lines for an Old Man"?

4. What does the speaker mean by saying that "Our only health is the disease" in Part IV of "East Coker"?

5. What is a possible interpretation of the significance of the "Midwinter spring" described in Part I of "Little Gidding"?

6. Why should the innocent approach of the child to Christmas not be lost, according to "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

7. What is the nature of the speakers "affliction" in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?

8. What is a possible interpretation of the use of the phrase "In my beginning is my end" and its inversion, "In my end is my beginning" at the beginning and end of "East Coker"?

9. About what is the speaker confused in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

10. Why do the "cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries," spoken of in the first chorus from 'The Rock,' bring man further away from God and closer to dust?

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