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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first of the "gifts reserved for age" that the speaker's interlocutor discloses in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) The conscious impotence of rage / At human folly.
(b) The cold friction of expiring sense / Without enchantment.
(c) The laceration / Of laughter at what ceases to amuse.
(d) The rending pain of re-enactment / Of all that you have done, and been.

2. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Nature.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Music.
(d) Silence.

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

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

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

6. 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) Periphrastic.
(b) Pointless.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Insular.

7. The speaker asserts in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that the sea has many what?
(a) Stories and whispers.
(b) Truths and half-truths.
(c) Tragedies and failings.
(d) Gods and voices.

8. The speaker's interlocutor in Part II of "Little Gidding" says that "next year's words await another" what?
(a) Voice.
(b) Dictionary.
(c) Letter.
(d) Year.

9. The final portion of Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" sees the speaker implore prayer on behalf of those who end "wherever cannot reach them the sound of the sea bell's" what?
(a) Perpetual angelus.
(b) Homeward swell.
(c) Eternal hymn.
(d) Reprieve from earthly hell.

10. 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) Destination.
(b) Sense.
(c) End.
(d) Purpose.

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

12. Which of the following does the speaker NOT say man must think of as forever doing in Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Hauling.
(b) Bailing.
(c) Setting.
(d) Heaving.

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

14. The speaker states in "Little Gidding"'s first part that "you are here... Where prayer has been valid" to do what?
(a) Carry report.
(b) Kneel.
(c) Instruct yourself.
(d) Pray.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?

2. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?

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

4. The last two lines of Part IV of "Little Gidding" state that "We only live, only suspire / Consumed by either" what or what?

5. With whom, according to the last part of "Little Gidding," are "we" born?

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