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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first of the "conditions which often look alike" in Part III of "Little Gidding" is said to be attachment to what?
(a) Self, things, and persons.
(b) Family, friends, and love.
(c) Life.
(d) Self.

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

3. History is said, in Part V of "Little Gidding," to be a pattern of what?
(a) Timeless moments.
(b) Half-realized realities.
(c) Incalculable chunks.
(d) Perceived perceptions.

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

5. 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) Destination.
(c) End.
(d) Sense.

6. 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?
(a) Thought.
(b) Truth.
(c) Time.
(d) Being.

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

8. 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) Nine.
(b) A hundred.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

9. The speaker says in Part I of "Little Gidding" that there is a "windless cold that is the heart's" what?
(a) Death.
(b) Heat.
(c) Fire.
(d) Chill.

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

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

12. In what month would the auditor of the first part of "Little Gidding" find the hedges white again, "with voluptuary sweetness"?
(a) March.
(b) May.
(c) July.
(d) April.

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

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 man of angst.
(c) The gaze of the young.
(d) Men's curiosity.

15. The speaker asks in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" when there will be an end to "the unprayable / Prayer at the calamitous" what?
(a) Apocalypse.
(b) Amelioration.
(c) Annunciation.
(d) Assumption.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the final sentence of the third part of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says, "Not fare well, but fare" what," voyagers"?

2. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?

3. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?

4. The hedgerow is said in Part I of "Little Gidding" to be "blanched for an hour with transitory blossom" of what?

5. The passengers on the train in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" are said to be not escaping from what?

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