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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. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The salt.
(b) The moonlight.
(c) The briar rose.
(d) The fog.

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) Music.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Silence.

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"?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) A hundred.
(d) Nine.

4. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?
(a) The swell of the sea.
(b) The roots of the earth.
(c) Time immemorial.
(d) Anxious worried women.

5. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Christ.
(b) Siva.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Arjuna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the speaker NOT say man must think of as forever doing in Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. The speaker states in the third part of "Little Gidding" that "We cannot restore policies / Or follow" what?

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

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

5. The people spoken of in Part III, of "Little Gidding," who are "All touched by a common genius," are united in what?

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

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

4. Summarize the significance of the discussion of the past in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" (beginning with "It seems, as one becomes older" and ending with "Over the shoulder, towards the primitive terror").

5. What is meant by the speaker's interlocutor's phrase that "next year's words await another voice" in Part II of "Little Gidding"?

6. 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"?

7. 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"?

8. What is significant about the speaker's discussion of the strangeness of the sea in relation to man, in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

10. What is the meaning of "Behovely" as it is used in the phrase, found in Part III of "Little Gidding" that, "Sin is Behovely"?

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