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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker says in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Time.
(c) Being.
(d) Thought.

2. 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 brave face.
(b) A curious glance.
(c) Affected nonchalance.
(d) Pointed scrutiny.

3. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?
(a) The marred foundations of earth.
(b) The water and fire.
(c) The pasture and the weed.
(d) The parched eviscerate soil.

4. "Over the asphalt where no other sound was," what does the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" hear?
(a) Distant footsteps.
(b) Dead leaves.
(c) Rattling tin.
(d) Flickering candles.

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

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

7. It is said in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that man cannot think of "a future that is not liable / Like the past, to have no" what?
(a) End.
(b) Sense.
(c) Destination.
(d) Purpose.

8. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Business letters.
(b) Periodicals.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Conversation.

9. 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.

10. 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) Annunciation.
(c) Assumption.
(d) Apocalypse.

11. The interlocutor of Part II of "Little Gidding" states that the "Fullfed beast shall kick " what?
(a) The vile trough.
(b) The empty pail.
(c) The underfed man.
(d) The societal structure.

12. It is said in the second part of "The Dry Salvages" that when one becomes older it seems as though "the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a" what?
(a) Daily ritual.
(b) Chronological order.
(c) Mere sequence.
(d) Topological reality.

13. What is the answer to the question in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "Who then devised the torment"?
(a) Love.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Fire.
(d) The dove.

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

15. 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) Homeward swell.
(b) Eternal hymn.
(c) Reprieve from earthly hell.
(d) Perpetual angelus.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

4. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. The speaker, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?

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