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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 third part of "Little Gidding" says that Sin is what?
(a) Inexpedient.
(b) Impressive.
(c) Behovely.
(d) Homely.

2. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?
(a) Reason.
(b) Desire.
(c) Christ.
(d) Death.

3. In the litany of "usual / Pastimes and drugs, and features of the press," given in Part V of "The Dry Salvages," communication with which god is listed?
(a) Mars.
(b) The Triune God.
(c) Krishna.
(d) Arjuna.

4. 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) Fruit.
(c) Business letters.
(d) Periodicals.

5. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Arjuna.
(c) Siva.
(d) Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "descending breaks the air"?

2. The speaker says near the end of Part III of "Little Gidding" that "We have taken from the defeated / What they had to leave us--a" what?

3. Part V of "Little Gidding" states that "while the light fails / On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel / History is now and" what?

4. The people spoken of in Part III, of "Little Gidding," who are "All touched by a common genius," are united in what?

5. With whom, according to the last part of "Little Gidding," are "we" born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

4. 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"?

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. Why would anyone passing "this way" "have to put off / Sense and notion" in Part I of "Little Gidding"?

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

8. How is "Time the destroyer" also "time the preserver," as stated in Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?

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. 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"?

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