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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 said to be unpleasantly met in the fifth of the "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) A Yorkshire Terrier.
(b) Mirza Mura Ali Beg.
(c) Mr. Eliot.
(d) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.

2. What does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" say should not be forgotten in later experience?
(a) The first-remembered Christmas present.
(b) The first-remembered Christmas Tree.
(c) The first-remembered Christmas meal.
(d) The last-remembered Christmas Tree.

3. In the second stanza of Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", into what world does the speaker say to descend?
(a) The world of fance.
(b) The world of sense.
(c) The world of spirit.
(d) The world of perpetual solitude.

4. In the first stanza of Part IV of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", what do time and the bell do?
(a) Answer light to light.
(b) Clutch and cling.
(c) Carry the sun away.
(d) Bury the day.

5. How many men appear in the fragment of an Agon in the "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama"?
(a) Six.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the "golden vision" reappear in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?

2. At what door might the speaker of "Eyes that last I saw in tears" see the eyes again?

3. Apprehension of the point of intersection of the timeless with time is the occupation of whom, according to Part V of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages"?

4. Whom does the speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" think is a "strong brown god"?

5. In Part I of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding", it is said that the communication of the dead is tongued with what beyond the language of the living?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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 does the speaker mean by saying that "Our only health is the disease" in Part IV of "East Coker"?

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

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

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

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

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

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