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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 soul of all souls.
(c) The crowned knot of fire.
(d) The Beatific Vision.

3. 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) Arjuna.
(b) Siva.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Christ.

4. With what does the speaker's old master leave him at the end of Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) A withering rose.
(b) A company of nameless ghosts.
(c) An incommunicable sorrow.
(d) A kind of valediction.

5. Part I of "Little Gidding" states that there is "no wind, but" what in the "dark time of the year"?
(a) Pentecostal fire.
(b) Silent howling.
(c) An answer on the air.
(d) Blinding specks of light.

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

7. 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"?
(a) Three.
(b) Nine.
(c) A hundred.
(d) Four.

8. The speaker states in the third part of "Little Gidding" that "We cannot restore policies / Or follow" what?
(a) An antique drum.
(b) An inconstant beat.
(c) A crippled old man.
(d) An outdated faith.

9. The last two lines of Part IV of "Little Gidding" state that "We only live, only suspire / Consumed by either" what or what?
(a) Love or hate.
(b) Truth or lies.
(c) Fire or fire.
(d) Water or fire.

10. 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.

11. What is the "it" in "The Dry Salvages," Part II's final clause, "is what it always was"?
(a) The ragged rock.
(b) The sudden fury.
(c) Time.
(d) The halcyon day.

12. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Uncertainty about.
(b) Assurance of.
(c) Freedom from.
(d) Means to.

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

14. 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 intersection of time and timelessness.
(c) The soul's desolation.
(d) The world's end.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the litany of "usual / Pastimes and drugs, and features of the press," given in Part V of "The Dry Salvages," communication with which god is listed?

2. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

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