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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. The last line of Part III of "Four Quartets: East Coker" states that "where you are is" where?
(a) Where you will be.
(b) Where you are not.
(c) Where you are.
(d) Where you have been.

2. Where does the "golden vision" reappear in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?
(a) Death's dream kingdom.
(b) The wold.
(c) Under the red rock.
(d) Death's other kingdom.

3. Whose hands wove the "intolerable shirt of flame" in Part IV of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?
(a) Torment.
(b) Fire.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.

4. 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"?
(a) The dying.
(b) The saint.
(c) The metaphysician.
(d) The theologian.

5. What prayer does the sea bell say perpetually in Part IV of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The Memorare.
(b) The Lord's Prayer.
(c) The Angelus.
(d) The Doxologia Minor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the dullard in "Lines for an Old Man" know?

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

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

2. Why does the speaker of "Lines for an Old Man" compare himself with a tiger?

3. 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"?

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

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

6. What is meant in "Burnt Norton" by the phrase, "Only a flicker / Over the strained time-ridden faces / Distracted from distraction by distraction"?

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

8. What does it mean to be "redeemed from fire by fire" as stated in the fourth part of "Little Gidding"?

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

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

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