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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Future.
(c) Fond.
(d) Fruitful.

2. When did the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" meet "one walking, loitering and hurried"?
(a) The uncertain hour before morning.
(b) In the waning light of evening.
(c) The dark of midnight.
(d) The bright cheerless light of winter noonday.

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(d) An outdated faith.

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

5. The people spoken of in Part III, of "Little Gidding," who are "All touched by a common genius," are united in what?
(a) The obliteration of care.
(b) The kinship of their patrimonies.
(c) The strife which divided them.
(d) The transfiguration of the community.

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

7. 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?
(a) Rose.
(b) God.
(c) Truth.
(d) Ghost.

8. 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 world's end.
(b) The heavenly spheres.
(c) The soul's desolation.
(d) The intersection of time and timelessness.

9. Into what are the "tongues of flame" said to be enfolded in the last lines of the poem, found in "Little Gidding"?
(a) The crowned knot of fire.
(b) The rose.
(c) The soul of all souls.
(d) The Beatific Vision.

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

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

12. What does the speaker say that he believes to be a "strong brown god" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Death.
(b) The river.
(c) The earth.
(d) The grizzly bear.

13. 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 story.
(b) A world.
(c) A family.
(d) A life.

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

15. 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) England.
(b) The future.
(c) The past.
(d) Evermore.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?

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

3. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?

4. By whom does the speaker say that the "brown god is almost forgotten" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. According to the speaker, the brown god's rhythm "was present in the nursery bedroom, / In the rank ailanthus of" the dooryard of what month?

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