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

2. Which of the following is NOT an attitude towards Christmas which the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" states may be ignored?
(a) The patently commercial.
(b) The rowdy.
(c) The torpid.
(d) The jovial.

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

4. What is the reader implored not to hope to find behind the white well in the third Landscape?
(a) Memories of pride.
(b) Broken steel.
(c) The white hart.
(d) The broken branch.

5. The speaker asks if it is a dream or something else when the surface of a river looks like a what that "sweats with tears"?
(a) Eye.
(b) Mother.
(c) Face.
(d) Angel.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the second stanza of Part V of "Four Quartets: East Coker", where is it stated that one starts from?

2. How many characters are in the fragment of a prologue?

3. If the eyes spoken of in "Eyes that last I saw in tears" outlast the tears, in what will they hold the speaker?

4. What do the seams need in "Marina"?

5. What word is notably repeated throughout the first half of "Marina"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is a possible interpretation of the significance of the "Midwinter spring" described in Part I of "Little Gidding"?

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

6. 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?

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

8. 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"?

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

10. What is the apparent distinction between the attitude towards Christmas of the child and the childish in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

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