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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. Across what river does the "camp fire shake with alien spears" in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) Life's faded river.
(b) Death's other river.
(c) The crystalline river.
(d) The blackened river.

2. What did the wind break when it sprang up in The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) The curtains.
(b) The walls.
(c) The echoes.
(d) The bells.

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

4. What is said in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker" to be "our only food"?
(a) The care of lovers.
(b) The substance of Adam.
(c) The hated medicine.
(d) The bloody flesh.

5. 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"?
(a) The dying.
(b) The saint.
(c) The theologian.
(d) The metaphysician.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following have not "become unsubstantial" in "Marina"?

3. What is the reader implored not to hope to find behind the white well in the third Landscape?

4. 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?

5. In "To the Indians Who Died in Africa," whom should a man see in the dust in front of his own door at sunset?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is implied by the repetition of the phrase "meaning / Death," in reference to the various stages of life's enjoyment in "Marina"?

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

7. 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"?

8. How is Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" different from the other four sections of the poem?

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

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

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