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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. What object in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" is related to a coffin?
(a) A ten-sided playing dice.
(b) The two of spades.
(c) The word "coffer."
(d) An image of a flowerbox.

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

3. What is felt, in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker", beneath the "bleeding hands"?
(a) Frigid purgatorial fires.
(b) The sharp compassion of the healer's art.
(c) The enigma of the fever chart.
(d) The absolute paternal care.

4. Between what two things are "Whispers and small laughter" found in "Marina"?
(a) Water and ice.
(b) Memories and future joys.
(c) Fire and heat.
(d) Leaves and hurrying feet.

5. How many male voices speak in the third chorus of 'The Rock'?
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Nine.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wonders at the tree in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

2. In the first stanza of Part IV of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", what do time and the bell do?

3. What in Part V of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton" is said to be "itself unmoving, / Only the cause and end of movement"?

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

5. What does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" say should not be forgotten in later experience?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is a possible interpretation of the use of the phrase "In my beginning is my end" and its inversion, "In my end is my beginning" at the beginning and end of "East Coker"?

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. What does Sweeney primarily describe in the "Fragment of an Agon"?

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

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

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