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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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) Significant soil.
(c) Congenial thought.
(d) Human fecundity.

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

4. 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) Purpose.
(b) Sense.
(c) Destination.
(d) End.

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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) Means to.
(b) Assurance of.
(c) Freedom from.
(d) Uncertainty about.

11. "Over the asphalt where no other sound was," what does the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" hear?
(a) Rattling tin.
(b) Dead leaves.
(c) Distant footsteps.
(d) Flickering candles.

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

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

14. The third of the "conditions which often look alike" in Part III of "Little Gidding" is what?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Fear.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say that he believes to be a "strong brown god" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. Where, according to the first three lines of Part V of "Little Gidding," do "we start from?"

3. The speaker in the "The Dry Salvages"'s third part, enjoins his auditor to consider the future and the past with what?

4. 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?

5. The old master whom the speaker encounters states that he is not "eager to rehearse" what in Part II of "Little Gidding"?

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