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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. 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?
(a) Sense.
(b) End.
(c) Purpose.
(d) Destination.

2. The last two lines of Part IV of "Little Gidding" state that "We only live, only suspire / Consumed by either" what or what?
(a) Truth or lies.
(b) Water or fire.
(c) Love or hate.
(d) Fire or fire.

3. 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 Christian mind.
(c) A skeptical eye.
(d) A broad perspective.

4. By whom does the speaker say that the "brown god is almost forgotten" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Farmers.
(b) All mankind.
(c) Kings.
(d) City dwellers.

5. When did the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" meet "one walking, loitering and hurried"?
(a) The uncertain hour before morning.
(b) The dark of midnight.
(c) In the waning light of evening.
(d) The bright cheerless light of winter noonday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first line of "Little Gidding" say is its own season?

2. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?

3. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?

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

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?

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 line, "You are not the same people who left that station," in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

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

6. 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"?

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

8. 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"?

9. 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").

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

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