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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 that he believes to be a "strong brown god" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The grizzly bear.
(b) The earth.
(c) Death.
(d) The river.

2. Part I of "Little Gidding" states that there is "no wind, but" what in the "dark time of the year"?
(a) Silent howling.
(b) An answer on the air.
(c) Blinding specks of light.
(d) Pentecostal fire.

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) Eloquence.
(d) Fire.

4. 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) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Nine.
(d) A hundred.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?

2. 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?

3. The speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages" states that "the moments of" what "are likewise permanent"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

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

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 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"?

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

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

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

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