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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. To whom are the lines of the first of the "Five Finger Exercises" written?
(a) A Persian Cat.
(b) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.
(c) A Yorkshire Terrier.
(d) A Duck in the Park.

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

3. In "A Dedication to My Wife," it is said that lovers "babble the same speech without need of" what?
(a) Voices.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Truth.
(d) Honesty.

4. Where are children's voices heard in the Landscape of New Hampshire?
(a) The front yard.
(b) The orchard.
(c) The dining hall.
(d) The bedroom.

5. How many of the characters are women in the fragment of a prologue?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

4. What object in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" is related to a coffin?

5. The speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" wonders if whom meant that "the future is a faded song" in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How do love and desire contrast with one another in "Burnt Norton"?

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

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