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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Near the end of Part I of "Little Gidding," it is said that "the communication / Of the dead is tongued with" what?
(a) Fire.
(b) Sagacity.
(c) Silence.
(d) Eloquence.

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?
(a) England.
(b) The past.
(c) The future.
(d) Evermore.

3. 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) Destination.
(b) Purpose.
(c) End.
(d) Sense.

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

5. What do the passengers watch widen behind them on the "deck of the drumming liner" in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The rails.
(b) The station.
(c) The furrow.
(d) The horizon.

6. Describing the correct cohesion of language, the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding" describes the "common word exact without vulgarity, / The formal word precise but not" what?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Periphrastic.
(c) Insular.
(d) Pointless.

7. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?
(a) Deception.
(b) Understood.
(c) Forgotten.
(d) Alive.

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

9. The speaker says in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?
(a) Being.
(b) Thought.
(c) Time.
(d) Truth.

10. The speaker's interlocutor in Part II of "Little Gidding" says that "next year's words await another" what?
(a) Voice.
(b) Year.
(c) Dictionary.
(d) Letter.

11. When did the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" meet "one walking, loitering and hurried"?
(a) The bright cheerless light of winter noonday.
(b) The uncertain hour before morning.
(c) The dark of midnight.
(d) In the waning light of evening.

12. In the first few lines of Part II of "Little Gidding," it reads that "Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where" what ended?
(a) A life.
(b) A world.
(c) A family.
(d) A story.

13. What is the answer to the question in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "Who then devised the torment"?
(a) Fire.
(b) The dove.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Love.

14. According to the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding," "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive" where?
(a) Where no one has been before.
(b) Where time is not.
(c) Where we started.
(d) Where we always were.

15. Into what are the "tongues of flame" said to be enfolded in the last lines of the poem, found in "Little Gidding"?
(a) The soul of all souls.
(b) The rose.
(c) The Beatific Vision.
(d) The crowned knot of fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. What does the first line of "Little Gidding" say is its own season?

3. What does the speaker say that he believes to be a "strong brown god" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

4. The speaker says near the end of Part III of "Little Gidding" that "We have taken from the defeated / What they had to leave us--a" what?

5. Part I of "Little Gidding" states that there is "no wind, but" what in the "dark time of the year"?

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