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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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(a) An outdated faith.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

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

4. What is a synonymous word or phrase for the word "fructify," used in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Calcify.
(b) Bear fruit.
(c) Become sugar.
(d) Solidify.

5. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?
(a) Mars'.
(b) Krishna's.
(c) The Lady's.
(d) Christ's.

6. 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?
(a) A world.
(b) A story.
(c) A family.
(d) A life.

7. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?
(a) The opprobrius invective.
(b) The murmuring shell of time.
(c) The recession of fecundity.
(d) The promontory knives.

8. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Conversation.
(b) Periodicals.
(c) Business letters.
(d) Fruit.

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

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

11. The third part of "Little Gidding" says that Sin is what?
(a) Homely.
(b) Impressive.
(c) Behovely.
(d) Inexpedient.

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

13. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The fog.
(b) The moonlight.
(c) The briar rose.
(d) The salt.

14. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?
(a) Action.
(b) Others.
(c) History.
(d) Temporality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. History is said, in Part V of "Little Gidding," to be a pattern of what?

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

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