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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. The speaker in the "The Dry Salvages"'s third part, enjoins his auditor to consider the future and the past with what?
(a) An equal mind.
(b) A skeptical eye.
(c) A Christian mind.
(d) A broad perspective.

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

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

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

5. What, according to the speaker in Part III of "Little Gidding," "Begins as attachment to our own field of action"?
(a) Love of a country.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Expiation.
(d) Servitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Over the asphalt where no other sound was," what does the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" hear?

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

3. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

4. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. The speaker, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

2. How is "Time the destroyer" also "time the preserver," as stated in Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

4. What is meant by saying in the final part of "Little Gidding" that "history is a pattern / Of timeless moments"?

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 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"?

7. 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"?

8. 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"?

9. What does the speaker mean when he states, in the last part of "The Dry Salvages," that "Here the impossible union / Of spheres of existence is actual"?

10. What is the "real destination" of the sailors, as described at the end of Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

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