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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) Symbol.
(b) Corpse.
(c) Vendetta.
(d) Song.

3. 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) Conversation.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Periodicals.

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

5. The old master whom the speaker encounters states that he is not "eager to rehearse" what in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) Their old friendship.
(b) His thoughts and theory.
(c) The account of his death.
(d) The lines of a poem.

6. The speaker says in Part I of "Little Gidding" that "this is the nearest, in place and time, / Now and in England." To what is "this" the nearest?
(a) The heavenly spheres.
(b) The world's end.
(c) The intersection of time and timelessness.
(d) The soul's desolation.

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

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

9. By whom does the speaker say that the "brown god is almost forgotten" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) All mankind.
(b) Kings.
(c) Farmers.
(d) City dwellers.

10. 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) Sagacity.
(c) Fire.
(d) Eloquence.

11. 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) Purpose.
(c) Sense.
(d) Destination.

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

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

14. The speaker states in "Little Gidding"'s first part that "you are here... Where prayer has been valid" to do what?
(a) Pray.
(b) Carry report.
(c) Instruct yourself.
(d) Kneel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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

3. Into what are the "tongues of flame" said to be enfolded in the last lines of the poem, found in "Little Gidding"?

4. According to the speaker of "Little Gidding," history may be either freedom or what?

5. 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?

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