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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. According to the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding," "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive" where?
(a) Where time is not.
(b) Where no one has been before.
(c) Where we started.
(d) Where we always were.

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. What does the first line of "Little Gidding" say is its own season?
(a) A chilly spring day.
(b) A cool autumn evening.
(c) Midwinter spring.
(d) Late summer.

9. Where, according to the first three lines of Part V of "Little Gidding," do "we start from?"
(a) The beginning.
(b) The middle.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) The end.

10. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?
(a) Alive.
(b) Deception.
(c) Forgotten.
(d) Understood.

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

12. The speaker says in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "what you thought you came for / Is only a" what?
(a) Tomb.
(b) Falsehood.
(c) Shell.
(d) Miracle.

13. What is heard under "the oppression of the silent fog" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The tolling bell.
(b) The voices of the sea.
(c) The intimations of doom.
(d) The seagull's cry.

14. 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) Stories and whispers.
(d) Truths and half-truths.

15. "But to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time, is an occupation for" whom according to Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The philosopher.
(b) The common man.
(c) The saint.
(d) The mystic.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first of the "conditions which often look alike" in Part III of "Little Gidding" is said to be attachment to what?

2. In what month would the auditor of the first part of "Little Gidding" find the hedges white again, "with voluptuary sweetness"?

3. Between what are the "children in the apple-tree... heard, half-heard" in the last part of "Little Gidding"?

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

5. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?

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