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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the final lines of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says that contentment is found at last "If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too far from the yew-tree) / The life of" what?
(a) Congenial thought.
(b) Earthly soul.
(c) Significant soil.
(d) Human fecundity.

2. 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.

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

4. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?
(a) Action.
(b) Temporality.
(c) History.
(d) Others.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" meet "one walking, loitering and hurried"?

2. What is a synonymous word or phrase for the word "fructify," used in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. 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"?

4. "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"?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is meant by the statement in Part II of "Little Gidding" that "Water and fire deride / The sacrifice that we denied"?

2. What does the speaker mean in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" by "The tolling bell / Measures time not our time"?

3. What is signified by the statement, in the final part of "Little Gidding," that "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time"?

4. What characterizes the "gifts reserved for age" which the interlocutor of Part II of "Little Gidding" describes to the poem's speaker?

5. What does the speaker mean by saying in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" that "to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time, is an occupation for the saint"?

6. Why would anyone passing "this way" "have to put off / Sense and notion" in Part I of "Little Gidding"?

7. What does the speaker mean in Part I of "Little Gidding" when he states that "This is the spring time / But not in time's covenant"?

8. What is the purpose of the lines in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" from "To communicate with Mars, converse with spirits," to "Whether on the shores of Asia, or in the Edgware Road"?

9. Why is the "strong brown god" of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" "almost forgotten / By the dwellers in cities"?

10. What is meant in Part III of "Little Gidding" by "not less of love but expanding / Of love beyond desire, and so liberation / From the future as well as the past"?

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