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

2. Whom does the speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" think is a "strong brown god"?
(a) The sea.
(b) The river.
(c) The Boston fog.
(d) The earth.

3. What word is repeated at the end of "Difficulties of a Statesman"?
(a) Resign.
(b) Power.
(c) Rejoice.
(d) Shantih.

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

5. The speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" wonders if whom meant that "the future is a faded song" in Part III?
(a) Buddha.
(b) Krishna.
(c) Muhammad.
(d) Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the speaker say Cape Ann, the last Landscape, truly belongs?

2. In the second stanza of Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", into what world does the speaker say to descend?

3. What does the dullard in "Lines for an Old Man" know?

4. To which of the following are the lines of the fifth of the "Five Finger Exercises" addressed?

5. What did the wind break when it sprang up in The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In the sixth chorus of 'The Rock,' why is it said that men must build with "the sword in one hand and the trowel in the other"?

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

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

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

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

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

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