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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the speaker in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," what he calls "Time the destroyer" is also what?
(a) Time the destroyed.
(b) The Sempiternal Wheel.
(c) Time the preserver.
(d) The Ageless Force.

3. 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) Homeward swell.
(c) Perpetual angelus.
(d) Eternal hymn.

4. With whom, according to the last part of "Little Gidding," are "we" born?
(a) The world.
(b) Our children.
(c) Our parents.
(d) The dead.

5. 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 moonlight.
(d) The briar rose.

6. "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 mystic.
(b) The common man.
(c) The philosopher.
(d) The saint.

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) A hundred.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

8. Part V of "Little Gidding" states that "while the light fails / On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel / History is now and" what?
(a) The past.
(b) Evermore.
(c) The future.
(d) England.

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

10. 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) Heaving.
(c) Hauling.
(d) Bailing.

11. 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(c) An outdated faith.
(d) A crippled old man.

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

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

14. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?
(a) The remembrance of the old.
(b) The gaze of the young.
(c) The man of angst.
(d) Men's curiosity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker's interlocutor in Part II of "Little Gidding" says that "next year's words await another" what?

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

3. In addition to the life of the present individual and his peers, the speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that "the past experience revived in the meaning / Is not the experience of one life only," but of whom?

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

5. With what does the speaker's old master leave him at the end of Part II of "Little Gidding"?

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