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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 world.
(b) A life.
(c) A story.
(d) A family.

2. What do the passengers watch widen behind them on the "deck of the drumming liner" in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The rails.
(b) The furrow.
(c) The station.
(d) The horizon.

3. 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) A Christian mind.
(c) An equal mind.
(d) A broad perspective.

4. 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) Truth and justice.
(c) Sense and notion.
(d) Selfishness.

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

6. The speaker implores that a prayer be repeated on behalf of whom, in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) All Christians.
(c) Pagans.
(d) Bereaved women.

7. 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) Being.
(b) Time.
(c) Truth.
(d) Thought.

8. The passengers on the train in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" are said to be not escaping from what?
(a) Death.
(b) The future.
(c) Life.
(d) The past.

9. 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?
(a) Earthly soul.
(b) Congenial thought.
(c) Significant soil.
(d) Human fecundity.

10. In the final sentence of the third part of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says, "Not fare well, but fare" what," voyagers"?
(a) Future.
(b) Fond.
(c) Fruitful.
(d) Forward.

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

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

13. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Siva.
(b) Christ.
(c) Arjuna.
(d) Artemis.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding," "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive" where?

2. According to the speaker, the brown god's rhythm "was present in the nursery bedroom, / In the rank ailanthus of" the dooryard of what month?

3. "Over the asphalt where no other sound was," what does the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" hear?

4. 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?

5. The speaker says in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "what you thought you came for / Is only a" what?

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