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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 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?
(a) Thought.
(b) Being.
(c) Truth.
(d) Time.

2. With what does the speaker's old master leave him at the end of Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) A company of nameless ghosts.
(b) A withering rose.
(c) A kind of valediction.
(d) An incommunicable sorrow.

3. The speaker in the "The Dry Salvages"'s third part, enjoins his auditor to consider the future and the past with what?
(a) A broad perspective.
(b) An equal mind.
(c) A Christian mind.
(d) A skeptical eye.

4. The speaker says in Part I of "Little Gidding" that "this is the nearest, in place and time, / Now and in England." To what is "this" the nearest?
(a) The world's end.
(b) The soul's desolation.
(c) The intersection of time and timelessness.
(d) The heavenly spheres.

5. The speaker tells his auditor in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "If you came this way... At any time or at any season... you would have to put off" what?
(a) Selfishness.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Sense and notion.
(d) Truth and justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

3. The third part of "Little Gidding" says that Sin is what?

4. What is the answer to the question in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "Who then devised the torment"?

5. According to the speaker in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," what he calls "Time the destroyer" is also what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

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

6. 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"?

7. 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"?

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 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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