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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 says in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "what you thought you came for / Is only a" what?
(a) Miracle.
(b) Shell.
(c) Tomb.
(d) Falsehood.

2. What is the answer to the question in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "Who then devised the torment"?
(a) The dove.
(b) Love.
(c) Fire.
(d) Humanity.

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

4. With what do "we challenge / The first-met stranger in the waning dusk," according to the speaker in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) Pointed scrutiny.
(b) A brave face.
(c) Affected nonchalance.
(d) A curious glance.

5. Describing the correct cohesion of language, the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding" describes the "common word exact without vulgarity, / The formal word precise but not" what?
(a) Periphrastic.
(b) Insular.
(c) Pointless.
(d) Pedantic.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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 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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is meant by the phrase, in Part V of "Little Gidding," "Every poem [is] an epitaph"?

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

3. With whom does the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" converse, and what is their relationship to one another, on the literal level?

4. 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."

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

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

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

8. 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"?

9. 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"?

10. 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").

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