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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 in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?
(a) Men's curiosity.
(b) The man of angst.
(c) The remembrance of the old.
(d) The gaze of the young.

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

3. 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?
(a) Symbol.
(b) Corpse.
(c) Vendetta.
(d) Song.

4. From where does the "wailing warning " of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" come?
(a) The receding shoreline.
(b) The waxing storm.
(c) The dwindling sunlight.
(d) The approaching headland.

5. The speaker asserts in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that the sea has many what?
(a) Truths and half-truths.
(b) Gods and voices.
(c) Tragedies and failings.
(d) Stories and whispers.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says in Part I of "Little Gidding" that there is a "windless cold that is the heart's" what?

2. Between what are the "children in the apple-tree... heard, half-heard" in the last part of "Little Gidding"?

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

4. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" 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 the "real destination" of the sailors, as described at the end of Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. 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."

3. What does the speaker mean when he states, in the last part of "The Dry Salvages," that "Here the impossible union / Of spheres of existence is actual"?

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

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

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

7. 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"?

8. 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"?

9. 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"?

10. 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"?

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