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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 sentence of the third part of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says, "Not fare well, but fare" what," voyagers"?
(a) Fruitful.
(b) Future.
(c) Forward.
(d) Fond.

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

3. With what does the speaker's old master leave him at the end of Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) An incommunicable sorrow.
(b) A company of nameless ghosts.
(c) A kind of valediction.
(d) A withering rose.

4. 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) September.
(c) July.
(d) April.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker asks in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" when there will be an end to "the unprayable / Prayer at the calamitous" what?

2. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?

4. 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?

5. In what month would the auditor of the first part of "Little Gidding" find the hedges white again, "with voluptuary sweetness"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the lines in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "Only the hardly, barely prayable / Prayer of the one Annunciation"?

2. 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"?

3. What is an interpretative way to read the significance of the "ragged rock" being "what it always was," at the end of Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?

4. What is meant in Part III of "Little Gidding" by "We cannot revive old factions / We cannot restore old policies / Or follow an antique drum"?

5. What does the speaker mean by saying in Part I of "Little Gidding" that "prayer is more / Than an order of words, the conscious occupation / Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying"?

6. What is meant by the line, "You are not the same people who left that station," in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

7. Explain what is meant by the paradoxical statement in Part V of "The Dry Salvages," "music heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all."

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

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

10. 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"?

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