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

2. The speaker sees what, but not what in the first stanza of "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?
(a) The kingdom, but not the river.
(b) Death, but not the dream.
(c) The eyes, but not the tears.
(d) The tears, but not the eyes.

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

4. What is "inaccessible by the young" in "Lines for an Old Man"?
(a) The laying bare of the tooth of wit.
(b) The reflection of the golden eye.
(c) The hissing over the arched tongue.
(d) The truth of love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are children's voices heard in the Landscape of New Hampshire?

2. How many male voices speak in the third chorus of 'The Rock'?

3. 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?

4. What is celebrated by those marching into the city in "Triumphal March"?

5. If the eyes spoken of in "Eyes that last I saw in tears" outlast the tears, in what will they hold the speaker?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the speaker awoken in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Where is the reader told to go and why in the third landscape, "Usk"?

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

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

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