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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 does the dullard in "Lines for an Old Man" know?
(a) That he is mad.
(b) That all men must die.
(c) That there is no sun.
(d) That the day is done.

2. In what kingdom is the speaker of "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) Time's timeless kingdom.
(b) Death's dream kingdom
(c) Life's dead kingdom.
(d) Death's ancient kingdom.

3. Who is the God of the bone in Part II of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Christ.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) The earth.

4. In Part III of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages", the speaker wishes the voyagers not "fare well," but what?
(a) Fare forward.
(b) Fair well.
(c) Bon voyage.
(d) Adieu.

5. In the fourth Landscape, which of the following does the road NOT wind?
(a) Anger of ignored cry.
(b) Listlessness of ancient war.
(c) Langour of broken steel.
(d) Clamour of confused wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. The row of family portraits, "dingy busts," in "Difficulties of a Statesman" all look remarkably what?

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

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

4. In Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", it is said that "time-ridden faces" are distracted from their distractions by what?

5. What occurred in the past of the location of the fourth Landscape?

Short Essay Questions

1. What characterizes the tone of the poem in "Triumphal March"?

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

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

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

5. What is characteristic of the gods described in all of the sections aside from Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

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

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

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

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

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