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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. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Conversation.
(b) Periodicals.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Business letters.

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

3. The passengers on the train in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" are said to be not escaping from what?
(a) The past.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) The future.

4. "Over the asphalt where no other sound was," what does the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" hear?
(a) Flickering candles.
(b) Rattling tin.
(c) Distant footsteps.
(d) Dead leaves.

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) Pedantic.
(b) Periphrastic.
(c) Insular.
(d) Pointless.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding," "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive" where?

2. According to the speaker of "Little Gidding," history may be either freedom or what?

3. The hedgerow is said in Part I of "Little Gidding" to be "blanched for an hour with transitory blossom" of what?

4. It is said in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that man cannot think of "a future that is not liable / Like the past, to have no" what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

5. 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"?

6. 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"?

7. 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"?

8. 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."

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

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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