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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. Which of the following have not "become unsubstantial" in "Marina"?
(a) Those who sit in the sty of contentment.
(b) Those who glide with the joy of the lark.
(c) Those who sharpen the tooth of the dog.
(d) Those who suffer the ecstasy of the animals.

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

3. The juice of what does Mr. Hodgson press on "his palate fine" in "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) Gooseberry tart.
(b) Fresh cantaloupe.
(c) Strawberries.
(d) Fresh young geese.

4. Where, in "To the Indians Who Died in Africa," is man's destination said to be?
(a) Death's dream kingdom.
(b) His destiny.
(c) His own village.
(d) The cedar box.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is said in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker" to be "our only food"?

2. What do the seams need in "Marina"?

3. Whose hands wove the "intolerable shirt of flame" in Part IV of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?

4. What is the reader implored not to hope to find behind the white well in the third Landscape?

5. Between what two things were the bells swinging in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the apparent distinction between the attitude towards Christmas of the child and the childish in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

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

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

4. What is characteristic of the gods described in all of the sections aside from Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. What does it mean to be "redeemed from fire by fire" as stated in the fourth part of "Little Gidding"?

6. 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"?

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

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

9. Why does the speaker of "Lines for an Old Man" compare himself with a tiger?

10. What is the overall condition of true lovers described in "A Dedication to My Wife"?

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