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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the speaker NOT say man must think of as forever doing in Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Bailing.
(b) Setting.
(c) Heaving.
(d) Hauling.

2. The speaker, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?
(a) Krishna.
(b) Christ.
(c) Elijah.
(d) Jove.

3. What is said in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" to be "no healer"?
(a) Truth.
(b) Patience.
(c) Time.
(d) Vanity.

4. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?
(a) The remembrance of the old.
(b) The man of angst.
(c) The gaze of the young.
(d) Men's curiosity.

5. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?
(a) The opprobrius invective.
(b) The recession of fecundity.
(c) The murmuring shell of time.
(d) The promontory knives.

6. The speaker implores that a prayer be repeated on behalf of whom, in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) All Christians.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) Pagans.
(d) Bereaved women.

7. In what month would the auditor of the first part of "Little Gidding" find the hedges white again, "with voluptuary sweetness"?
(a) May.
(b) April.
(c) July.
(d) March.

8. The speaker says in Part I of "Little Gidding" that there is a "windless cold that is the heart's" what?
(a) Chill.
(b) Fire.
(c) Heat.
(d) Death.

9. The third part of "Little Gidding" says that Sin is what?
(a) Homely.
(b) Inexpedient.
(c) Impressive.
(d) Behovely.

10. Part I of "Little Gidding" states that there is "no wind, but" what in the "dark time of the year"?
(a) Blinding specks of light.
(b) An answer on the air.
(c) Pentecostal fire.
(d) Silent howling.

11. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?
(a) The parched eviscerate soil.
(b) The water and fire.
(c) The marred foundations of earth.
(d) The pasture and the weed.

12. The people spoken of in Part III, of "Little Gidding," who are "All touched by a common genius," are united in what?
(a) The transfiguration of the community.
(b) The strife which divided them.
(c) The obliteration of care.
(d) The kinship of their patrimonies.

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

14. It is said in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that man cannot think of "a future that is not liable / Like the past, to have no" what?
(a) Sense.
(b) Destination.
(c) Purpose.
(d) End.

15. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Assurance of.
(b) Freedom from.
(c) Means to.
(d) Uncertainty about.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding," "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive" where?

2. Part V of "Little Gidding" states that "while the light fails / On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel / History is now and" what?

3. The speaker's interlocutor in Part II of "Little Gidding" says that "next year's words await another" what?

4. Where, according to the first three lines of Part V of "Little Gidding," do "we start from?"

5. The speaker states in the third part of "Little Gidding" that "We cannot restore policies / Or follow" what?

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