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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. "Water and fire deride" that which "we denied," in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) The sacrifice.
(b) The earth.
(c) The guilt.
(d) Our weakness.

2. 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) Stories and whispers.
(d) Tragedies and failings.

3. According to the speaker of "Little Gidding," history may be either freedom or what?
(a) The future.
(b) False.
(c) Servitude.
(d) Solace.

4. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The briar rose.
(b) The fog.
(c) The moonlight.
(d) The salt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first line of Part III of "Little Gidding," it is said that there are how many "conditions which often look alike / Yet differ completely"?

2. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. The first of the "conditions which often look alike" in Part III of "Little Gidding" is said to be attachment to what?

4. What is the "it" in "The Dry Salvages," Part II's final clause, "is what it always was"?

5. In the final lines of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says that contentment is found at last "If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too far from the yew-tree) / The life of" what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the meaning of "Behovely" as it is used in the phrase, found in Part III of "Little Gidding" that, "Sin is Behovely"?

5. 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"?

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

7. What is an interpretative way to read the significance of the "ragged rock" being "what it always was," at the end of Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?

8. 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"?

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

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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