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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 suffer the ecstasy of the animals.
(b) Those who sharpen the tooth of the dog.
(c) Those who glide with the joy of the lark.
(d) Those who sit in the sty of contentment.

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

3. In Part II of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", it is said that what two things are reconciled among the stars?
(a) Truth and judgment.
(b) Man and man.
(c) The lion and the lamb.
(d) The boarhound and the boar.

4. How many conditions that "often look alike / Yet differ completely" does the speaker discuss in Part III of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?
(a) Nine.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what did the old master met in Part II of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding" leave the poem's speaker?

2. Apprehension of the point of intersection of the timeless with time is the occupation of whom, according to Part V of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages"?

3. What word is notably repeated throughout the first half of "Marina"?

4. In Part I of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", into what does the "door we never opened" lead?

5. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. What is implied about the owner of the eyes about whom the speaker is talking in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?

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

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

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

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

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