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

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

3. The speaker of "Eyes that last I saw in tears" says that what he sees, but that what he does not see, is his what?
(a) Affliction.
(b) Joy.
(c) Terror.
(d) Dream.

4. If the eyes spoken of in "Eyes that last I saw in tears" outlast the tears, in what will they hold the speaker?
(a) Definition.
(b) Derision.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Love.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "A Dedication to My Wife," it is said that lovers "babble the same speech without need of" what?

3. Between what two things are "Whispers and small laughter" found in "Marina"?

4. What is said in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker" to be "our only food"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. About what is the speaker confused 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 the "conscious art practiced with natural ease" of which Eliot writes in "To Walter de la Mare"?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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