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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the speaker of "Little Gidding," history may be either freedom or what?
(a) Servitude.
(b) The future.
(c) False.
(d) Solace.

2. The speaker says near the end of Part III of "Little Gidding" that "We have taken from the defeated / What they had to leave us--a" what?
(a) Vendetta.
(b) Symbol.
(c) Corpse.
(d) Song.

3. 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 obliteration of care.
(c) The strife which divided them.
(d) The transfiguration of the community.

4. History is said, in Part V of "Little Gidding," to be a pattern of what?
(a) Incalculable chunks.
(b) Perceived perceptions.
(c) Timeless moments.
(d) Half-realized realities.

5. Near the end of Part I of "Little Gidding," it is said that "the communication / Of the dead is tongued with" what?
(a) Fire.
(b) Sagacity.
(c) Silence.
(d) Eloquence.

6. What, in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "descending breaks the air"?
(a) The flame.
(b) Time.
(c) The dove.
(d) The end.

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

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

9. When did the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" meet "one walking, loitering and hurried"?
(a) The uncertain hour before morning.
(b) The dark of midnight.
(c) In the waning light of evening.
(d) The bright cheerless light of winter noonday.

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

11. Into what are the "tongues of flame" said to be enfolded in the last lines of the poem, found in "Little Gidding"?
(a) The rose.
(b) The Beatific Vision.
(c) The crowned knot of fire.
(d) The soul of all souls.

12. The final portion of Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" sees the speaker implore prayer on behalf of those who end "wherever cannot reach them the sound of the sea bell's" what?
(a) Eternal hymn.
(b) Reprieve from earthly hell.
(c) Perpetual angelus.
(d) Homeward swell.

13. From where does the "wailing warning " of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" come?
(a) The approaching headland.
(b) The dwindling sunlight.
(c) The receding shoreline.
(d) The waxing storm.

14. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?
(a) Desire.
(b) Reason.
(c) Christ.
(d) Death.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say that he believes to be a "strong brown god" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. The passengers on the train in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" are said to be not escaping from what?

3. The third part of "Little Gidding" says that Sin is what?

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

5. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?

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