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

2. What two things are made one in the "crowned knot of fire" discussed at the end of Part V of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?
(a) The fire and the rose.
(b) Hell and the devil.
(c) The living and the dead.
(d) The true and the good.

3. With what did the old master met in Part II of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding" leave the poem's speaker?
(a) A faded piece of sterling.
(b) An admonishing.
(c) A kind of valediction.
(d) A gracious benediction.

4. The row of family portraits, "dingy busts," in "Difficulties of a Statesman" all look remarkably what?
(a) Jovial.
(b) Morose.
(c) French.
(d) Roman.

5. In Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", it is said that "time-ridden faces" are distracted from their distractions by what?
(a) Mortality.
(b) Hope.
(c) Distraction.
(d) Meaning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where, in "To the Indians Who Died in Africa," is man's destination said to be?

2. How many men appear in the fragment of an Agon in the "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?

3. In the second chorus of 'The Rock,' it is said that the people will neglect what?

4. What sort of game are the women in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" playing?

5. What is "more affectionate than hate" in "Lines for an Old Man"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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