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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, in the eighth chorus of 'The Rock,' is said to have spoken of the shame of Jerusalem?
(a) Peter the Hermit.
(b) Melchisidek.
(c) John the Baptist.
(d) Christ.

2. What two things are made one in the "crowned knot of fire" discussed at the end of Part V of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?
(a) Hell and the devil.
(b) The fire and the rose.
(c) The living and the dead.
(d) The true and the good.

3. What word is notably repeated throughout the first half of "Marina"?
(a) Water.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Sadness.

4. What is "inaccessible by the young" in "Lines for an Old Man"?
(a) The laying bare of the tooth of wit.
(b) The truth of love.
(c) The reflection of the golden eye.
(d) The hissing over the arched tongue.

5. How many conditions that "often look alike / Yet differ completely" does the speaker discuss in Part III of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?
(a) Seven.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Nine.

6. Of what does the first coming remind "us" in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?
(a) The beginning.
(b) The second coming.
(c) The first man.
(d) The end of the world.

7. The speaker sees what, but not what in the first stanza of "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?
(a) The tears, but not the eyes.
(b) Death, but not the dream.
(c) The eyes, but not the tears.
(d) The kingdom, but not the river.

8. In Part I of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding", it is said that the communication of the dead is tongued with what beyond the language of the living?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Sapience.
(c) Spittle.
(d) Fire.

9. Across what river do the Tartar horsemen shake their spears in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) Death's other river.
(b) Life's faded river.
(c) The blackened river.
(d) The crystalline river.

10. Whom does the poet shall "try" man's well-preserved complacency in the third of the "Five Finger Exercises"?
(a) The dog.
(b) The dark.
(c) The worm.
(d) The light.

11. What object in "Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama" is related to a coffin?
(a) The word "coffer."
(b) An image of a flowerbox.
(c) A ten-sided playing dice.
(d) The two of spades.

12. What reality does the poem attempt to convey behind the impressive display of the "Triumphal March"?
(a) The temporality of power.
(b) The frivolity of war.
(c) The inevitability of death.
(d) The fecundity of love.

13. Between what two things are "Whispers and small laughter" found in "Marina"?
(a) Leaves and hurrying feet.
(b) Water and ice.
(c) Fire and heat.
(d) Memories and future joys.

14. To whom are the lines of the first of the "Five Finger Exercises" written?
(a) A Yorkshire Terrier.
(b) Ralph Hodgson Esquire.
(c) A Persian Cat.
(d) A Duck in the Park.

15. The enemy in "Lines for an Old Man" is said to be dangling from what?
(a) The hanging tree.
(b) The fruited tree.
(c) The friendly tree.
(d) The vicious tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first stanza of Part IV of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", what do time and the bell do?

2. Where does the "golden vision" reappear in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?

3. What does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" say should not be forgotten in later experience?

4. In Part III of "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton", it is said that "time-ridden faces" are distracted from their distractions by what?

5. In what kingdom is the speaker of "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

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