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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to the life of the present individual and his peers, the speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that "the past experience revived in the meaning / Is not the experience of one life only," but of whom?
(a) Posterity.
(b) The eternal.
(c) Many generations.
(d) Antiquity.

2. The people spoken of in Part III, of "Little Gidding," who are "All touched by a common genius," are united in what?
(a) The kinship of their patrimonies.
(b) The transfiguration of the community.
(c) The obliteration of care.
(d) The strife which divided them.

3. Describing the correct cohesion of language, the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding" describes the "common word exact without vulgarity, / The formal word precise but not" what?
(a) Periphrastic.
(b) Pointless.
(c) Insular.
(d) Pedantic.

4. "Water and fire deride" that which "we denied," in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) The guilt.
(b) The earth.
(c) The sacrifice.
(d) Our weakness.

5. The speaker in the "The Dry Salvages"'s third part, enjoins his auditor to consider the future and the past with what?
(a) A skeptical eye.
(b) An equal mind.
(c) A Christian mind.
(d) A broad perspective.

6. With what do "we challenge / The first-met stranger in the waning dusk," according to the speaker in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) A curious glance.
(b) Affected nonchalance.
(c) Pointed scrutiny.
(d) A brave face.

7. In the first few lines of Part II of "Little Gidding," it reads that "Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where" what ended?
(a) A story.
(b) A life.
(c) A family.
(d) A world.

8. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?
(a) The man of angst.
(b) The gaze of the young.
(c) The remembrance of the old.
(d) Men's curiosity.

9. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?
(a) Alive.
(b) Deception.
(c) Forgotten.
(d) Understood.

10. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Nature.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Music.
(d) Silence.

11. With what does the speaker's old master leave him at the end of Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) A kind of valediction.
(b) A withering rose.
(c) An incommunicable sorrow.
(d) A company of nameless ghosts.

12. The speaker asks in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" when there will be an end to "the unprayable / Prayer at the calamitous" what?
(a) Annunciation.
(b) Apocalypse.
(c) Assumption.
(d) Amelioration.

13. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Freedom from.
(b) Uncertainty about.
(c) Assurance of.
(d) Means to.

14. The hedgerow is said in Part I of "Little Gidding" to be "blanched for an hour with transitory blossom" of what?
(a) Moonlight.
(b) Snow.
(c) Celestial tears.
(d) Sunlight.

15. What is said in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" to be "no healer"?
(a) Truth.
(b) Vanity.
(c) Time.
(d) Patience.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" meet "one walking, loitering and hurried"?

2. What is the first of the "gifts reserved for age" that the speaker's interlocutor discloses in Part II of "Little Gidding"?

3. In the final lines of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says that contentment is found at last "If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too far from the yew-tree) / The life of" what?

4. The speaker's interlocutor in Part II of "Little Gidding" says that "next year's words await another" what?

5. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?

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