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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. Where, in Part II of "Four Quartets: East Coker", have the houses all gone?
(a) Over the mountain.
(b) Into oblivion.
(c) Under the hill.
(d) Under the sea.

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

3. With what did the old master met in Part II of "Four Quartets: Little Gidding" leave the poem's speaker?
(a) A faded piece of sterling.
(b) A gracious benediction.
(c) An admonishing.
(d) A kind of valediction.

4. 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 living and the dead.
(c) The true and the good.
(d) The fire and the rose.

5. What is the reader implored not to hope to find behind the white well in the third Landscape?
(a) The broken branch.
(b) The white hart.
(c) Memories of pride.
(d) Broken steel.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In "A Dedication to My Wife," it is said that lovers "babble the same speech without need of" what?

4. Who wonders at the tree in "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

5. The speaker asks if it is a dream or something else when the surface of a river looks like a what that "sweats with tears"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the tone of the five parts of the "Five-Finger Exercises" and how is this indicated?

2. What does Sweeney primarily describe in the "Fragment of an Agon"?

3. What is the nature of the speakers "affliction" in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?

4. Why do the "cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries," spoken of in the first chorus from 'The Rock,' bring man further away from God and closer to dust?

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

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

7. Why should the innocent approach of the child to Christmas not be lost, according to "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"?

8. What is a possible interpretation of the use of the phrase "In my beginning is my end" and its inversion, "In my end is my beginning" at the beginning and end of "East Coker"?

9. About what is the speaker confused in "The wind sprang up at four o'clock"?

10. For what is the ship in "Marina" a symbolic signifier?

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