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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Amelioration.
(b) Apocalypse.
(c) Annunciation.
(d) Assumption.

2. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?
(a) The roots of the earth.
(b) The swell of the sea.
(c) Anxious worried women.
(d) Time immemorial.

3. The speaker asserts in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that there "is no end, but" what?
(a) Addition.
(b) A cycle.
(c) A renewal.
(d) Oblivion.

4. 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.

5. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?
(a) Mars'.
(b) Krishna's.
(c) The Lady's.
(d) Christ's.

6. Which of the following does the speaker NOT say man must think of as forever doing in Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Setting.
(b) Hauling.
(c) Bailing.
(d) Heaving.

7. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The moonlight.
(b) The salt.
(c) The fog.
(d) The briar rose.

8. In the first line of Part III of "Little Gidding," it is said that there are how many "conditions which often look alike / Yet differ completely"?
(a) Nine.
(b) A hundred.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

9. In what month would the auditor of the first part of "Little Gidding" find the hedges white again, "with voluptuary sweetness"?
(a) April.
(b) July.
(c) March.
(d) May.

10. The speaker tells his auditor in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "If you came this way... At any time or at any season... you would have to put off" what?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Selfishness.
(c) Truth and justice.
(d) Sense and notion.

11. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The sky.
(b) The horizon.
(c) The sea.
(d) The river.

12. 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) Many generations.
(b) The eternal.
(c) Antiquity.
(d) Posterity.

13. The speaker asserts in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that the sea has many what?
(a) Gods and voices.
(b) Stories and whispers.
(c) Truths and half-truths.
(d) Tragedies and failings.

14. The speaker's interlocutor in Part II of "Little Gidding" says that "next year's words await another" what?
(a) Year.
(b) Voice.
(c) Dictionary.
(d) Letter.

15. According to the speaker in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," what he calls "Time the destroyer" is also what?
(a) Time the preserver.
(b) The Ageless Force.
(c) Time the destroyed.
(d) The Sempiternal Wheel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Part I of "Little Gidding" states that there is "no wind, but" what in the "dark time of the year"?

2. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?

3. The speaker states in Part III of "Little Gidding" that "It is not to ring the bell backward / Nor is it an incantation / To summon the spectre of a" what?

4. What, in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "descending breaks the air"?

5. The speaker says in Part I of "Little Gidding" that there is a "windless cold that is the heart's" what?

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