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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. 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.

2. What is "more affectionate than hate" in "Lines for an Old Man"?
(a) The love of truth.
(b) The hissing over the arched tongue.
(c) The laying bare of the tooth of wit.
(d) The relfection of the golden eye.

3. Which of the following is NOT an attitude towards Christmas which the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" states may be ignored?
(a) The rowdy.
(b) The patently commercial.
(c) The jovial.
(d) The torpid.

4. How many characters are in the fragment of a prologue?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Twelve.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "To the Indians Who Died in Africa," whom should a man see in the dust in front of his own door at sunset?

2. Across what river do the Tartar horsemen shake their spears in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

3. What image is used as a metaphor in the second Landscape?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

2. What is the "conscious art practiced with natural ease" of which Eliot writes in "To Walter de la Mare"?

3. How is the "Mr. Eliot" of the "Five-Finger Exercises" satirized?

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

5. What are the women doing with the card game in the "Fragment of a Prologue"?

6. 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?

7. What is meant in "Burnt Norton" by the phrase, "Only a flicker / Over the strained time-ridden faces / Distracted from distraction by distraction"?

8. How is Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" different from the other four sections of the poem?

9. What characterizes the tone of the poem in "Difficulties of a Statesman"?

10. What is the significance of the final landscape, "Cape Ann"?

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