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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Assurance of.
(b) Means to.
(c) Uncertainty about.
(d) Freedom from.

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

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

8. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?
(a) The pasture and the weed.
(b) The water and fire.
(c) The marred foundations of earth.
(d) The parched eviscerate soil.

9. In addition to the life of the present individual and his peers, the speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that "the past experience revived in the meaning / Is not the experience of one life only," but of whom?
(a) The eternal.
(b) Posterity.
(c) Many generations.
(d) Antiquity.

10. It is said in the second part of "The Dry Salvages" that when one becomes older it seems as though "the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a" what?
(a) Topological reality.
(b) Mere sequence.
(c) Chronological order.
(d) Daily ritual.

11. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?
(a) Reason.
(b) Christ.
(c) Desire.
(d) Death.

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

13. In the litany of "usual / Pastimes and drugs, and features of the press," given in Part V of "The Dry Salvages," communication with which god is listed?
(a) Arjuna.
(b) Mars.
(c) Krishna.
(d) The Triune God.

14. 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) Fruit.
(c) Periodicals.
(d) Business letters.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what does the speaker's old master leave him at the end of Part II of "Little Gidding"?

3. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?

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

5. Near the end of Part I of "Little Gidding," it is said that "the communication / Of the dead is tongued with" what?

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