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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. Between what two things were the bells swinging in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Truth and falsity.
(c) Life and death.
(d) Time and eternity.

2. Where does the "golden vision" reappear in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?
(a) Death's other kingdom.
(b) Under the red rock.
(c) Death's dream kingdom.
(d) The wold.

3. What is said in Part IV of "Four Quartets: East Coker" to be "our only food"?
(a) The hated medicine.
(b) The care of lovers.
(c) The substance of Adam.
(d) The bloody flesh.

4. How many male voices speak in the third chorus of 'The Rock'?
(a) Two.
(b) Nine.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

5. What image is used as a metaphor in the second Landscape?
(a) A kingdom.
(b) A field.
(c) A river.
(d) A marketplace.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "To Walter de la Mare," when do the ghosts return?

2. Which of the following have not "become unsubstantial" in "Marina"?

3. Whose hands wove the "intolerable shirt of flame" in Part IV of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding"?

4. The speaker of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages" wonders if whom meant that "the future is a faded song" in Part III?

5. What number does the speaker of "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees" ascribe to the last Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the sixth chorus of 'The Rock,' why is it said that men must build with "the sword in one hand and the trowel in the other"?

2. What are the women doing with the card game in the "Fragment of a Prologue"?

3. Where is the reader told to go and why in the third landscape, "Usk"?

4. What is the overall condition of true lovers described in "A Dedication to My Wife"?

5. What is meant in "Burnt Norton" by the phrase, "Only a flicker / Over the strained time-ridden faces / Distracted from distraction by distraction"?

6. How was the speaker awoken in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

7. What is implied by the repetition of the phrase "meaning / Death," in reference to the various stages of life's enjoyment in "Marina"?

8. How is Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" different from the other four sections of the poem?

9. What characterizes the tone of the poem in "Triumphal March"?

10. What is the significance of the final landscape, "Cape Ann"?

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