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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 in Part V of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton" is said to be "itself unmoving, / Only the cause and end of movement"?
(a) Death.
(b) Desire.
(c) Time.
(d) Love.

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

3. What is "inaccessible by the young" in "Lines for an Old Man"?
(a) The laying bare of the tooth of wit.
(b) The truth of love.
(c) The reflection of the golden eye.
(d) The hissing over the arched tongue.

4. Where, in Part II of "Four Quartets: East Coker", have the houses all gone?
(a) Under the sea.
(b) Into oblivion.
(c) Under the hill.
(d) Over the mountain.

5. 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) Hell and the devil.
(b) The true and the good.
(c) The living and the dead.
(d) The fire and the rose.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", into what does the "door we never opened" lead?

2. What object is the speaker of "Marina" considering when he states that the object is "less clear and clearer"?

3. In "A Note on War Poetry," what two forces are "beyond control by experiment"?

4. The juice of what does Mr. Hodgson press on "his palate fine" in "Five Finger Exercises"?

5. Between what two things were the bells swinging in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the tone of the five parts of the "Five-Finger Exercises" and how is this indicated?

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

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

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

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

6. 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"?

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

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

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

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

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