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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. "Water and fire deride" that which "we denied," in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) The sacrifice.
(b) Our weakness.
(c) The earth.
(d) The guilt.

2. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?
(a) The opprobrius invective.
(b) The murmuring shell of time.
(c) The recession of fecundity.
(d) The promontory knives.

3. Near the end of Part I of "Little Gidding," it is said that "the communication / Of the dead is tongued with" what?
(a) Sagacity.
(b) Silence.
(c) Fire.
(d) Eloquence.

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

5. The speaker asks in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" when there will be an end to "the unprayable / Prayer at the calamitous" what?
(a) Assumption.
(b) Apocalypse.
(c) Annunciation.
(d) Amelioration.

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

3. The speaker states in Part III of "Little Gidding" that "It is not to ring the bell backward / Nor is it an incantation / To summon the spectre of a" what?

4. History is said, in Part V of "Little Gidding," to be a pattern of what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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."

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

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

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

5. What does the speaker mean in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" when he states that, "the future is a faded song, a Royal Rose or a lavender spray / Of wistful regret for those who are not yet here to regret"?

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

7. 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"?

8. How can one be "redeemed from fire by fire," as is stated in Part IV of "Little Gidding"?

9. 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"?

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

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