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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The speaker in the "The Dry Salvages"'s third part, enjoins his auditor to consider the future and the past with what?
(a) An equal mind.
(b) A Christian mind.
(c) A broad perspective.
(d) A skeptical eye.

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

4. 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) Symbol.
(c) Song.
(d) Vendetta.

5. What do the passengers watch widen behind them on the "deck of the drumming liner" in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The rails.
(b) The horizon.
(c) The furrow.
(d) The station.

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

7. 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?
(a) March.
(b) July.
(c) September.
(d) April.

8. According to the speaker in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," what he calls "Time the destroyer" is also what?
(a) Time the preserver.
(b) The Sempiternal Wheel.
(c) The Ageless Force.
(d) Time the destroyed.

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

10. The speaker tells his auditor in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "If you came this way... At any time or at any season... you would have to put off" what?
(a) Truth and justice.
(b) Selfishness.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Sense and notion.

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

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

13. According to the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding," "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive" where?
(a) Where time is not.
(b) Where we always were.
(c) Where no one has been before.
(d) Where we started.

14. What, according to the speaker in Part III of "Little Gidding," "Begins as attachment to our own field of action"?
(a) Love of a country.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Servitude.
(d) Expiation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Water and fire deride" that which "we denied," in Part II of "Little Gidding"?

2. "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"?

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. What is the first of the "gifts reserved for age" that the speaker's interlocutor discloses in Part II of "Little Gidding"?

5. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?

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