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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) Their old friendship.
(b) The lines of a poem.
(c) The account of his death.
(d) His thoughts and theory.

2. Between what are the "children in the apple-tree... heard, half-heard" in the last part of "Little Gidding"?
(a) Time future and time past.
(b) Two waves.
(c) Death and life.
(d) Pyre and pyre.

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

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

5. With what do "we challenge / The first-met stranger in the waning dusk," according to the speaker in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) A curious glance.
(b) Affected nonchalance.
(c) Pointed scrutiny.
(d) A brave face.

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

7. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?
(a) Christ.
(b) Death.
(c) Desire.
(d) Reason.

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

9. The speaker, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?
(a) Elijah.
(b) Jove.
(c) Krishna.
(d) Christ.

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) Freedom from.
(c) Assurance of.
(d) Uncertainty about.

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

12. 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) Artemis.
(c) Siva.
(d) Christ.

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

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

15. Describing the correct cohesion of language, the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding" describes the "common word exact without vulgarity, / The formal word precise but not" what?
(a) Pointless.
(b) Insular.
(c) Periphrastic.
(d) Pedantic.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages" states that "the moments of" what "are likewise permanent"?

2. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. 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?

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

5. What is the answer to the question in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "Who then devised the torment"?

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