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

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

3. 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) Angel.
(b) Face.
(c) Eye.
(d) Mother.

4. What is celebrated by those marching into the city in "Triumphal March"?
(a) The crowning of a new king.
(b) Victory in war.
(c) A peace treaty.
(d) Liberation from an oppressor.

5. The speaker sees what, but not what in the first stanza of "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?
(a) Death, but not the dream.
(b) The tears, but not the eyes.
(c) The eyes, but not the tears.
(d) The kingdom, but not the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reality does the poem attempt to convey behind the impressive display of the "Triumphal March"?

2. To whom does the speaker say Cape Ann, the last Landscape, truly belongs?

3. What object in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" is related to a coffin?

4. What sort of game are the women in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" playing?

5. With what did the old master met in Part II of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding" leave the poem's speaker?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How is the "Mr. Eliot" of the "Five-Finger Exercises" satirized?

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

7. Where is the reader told to go and why in the third landscape, "Usk"?

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

9. What is implied about the owner of the eyes about whom the speaker is talking in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?

10. 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"?

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