2. In "A Dedication to My Wife," it is said that lovers "babble the same speech without need of" what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Voices.
(d) Meaning.

3. In the second of the "Five Finger Exercises", what stands in the brown field?
(a) A man.
(b) A tree.
(c) A scarecrow.
(d) A century.

4. How many characters are in the fragment of a prologue?
(a) Four.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.

5. How many weeks leave a year does "Arthur Edward Cyril Parker" receive from his job as a telephone operator in "Difficulties of a Statesman"?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not more still than when the speaker of "Lines for an Old Man" smells "the enemy"?

2. Who, in the eighth chorus of 'The Rock,' is said to have spoken of the shame of Jerusalem?

3. What prayer does the sea bell say perpetually in Part IV of "Four Quartets: The Dry Salvages"?

4. In the second stanza of Part V of "Four Quartets: East Coker", where is it stated that one starts from?

5. What do people enjoy about marches like the one described in the "Triumphal March"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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"?

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

8. What is implied about the owner of the eyes about whom the speaker is talking in "Eyes that last I saw in tears"?

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

10. What is characteristic of the gods described in all of the sections aside from Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?

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