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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. The speaker says in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "what you thought you came for / Is only a" what?
(a) Shell.
(b) Tomb.
(c) Miracle.
(d) Falsehood.

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

3. 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) The past.
(b) The future.
(c) Evermore.
(d) England.

4. The speaker tells his auditor in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "If you came this way... At any time or at any season... you would have to put off" what?
(a) Sense and notion.
(b) Selfishness.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Truth and justice.

5. The speaker states in Part III of "Little Gidding" that "It is not to ring the bell backward / Nor is it an incantation / To summon the spectre of a" what?
(a) God.
(b) Ghost.
(c) Rose.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?

3. From where does the "wailing warning " of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" come?

4. According to the speaker in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," what he calls "Time the destroyer" is also what?

5. The speaker asks in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" when there will be an end to "the unprayable / Prayer at the calamitous" what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would anyone passing "this way" "have to put off / Sense and notion" in Part I of "Little Gidding"?

2. What is meant by saying in the final part of "Little Gidding" that "history is a pattern / Of timeless moments"?

3. What is significant about the speaker's discussion of the strangeness of the sea in relation to man, in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

4. What does the speaker mean in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" when he states that, "the future is a faded song, a Royal Rose or a lavender spray / Of wistful regret for those who are not yet here to regret"?

5. What is meant in Part III of "Little Gidding" by "not less of love but expanding / Of love beyond desire, and so liberation / From the future as well as the past"?

6. Explain what is meant by the paradoxical statement in Part V of "The Dry Salvages," "music heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all."

7. What is meant by the statement in Part II of "Little Gidding" that "Water and fire deride / The sacrifice that we denied"?

8. What is the purpose of the lines in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" from "To communicate with Mars, converse with spirits," to "Whether on the shores of Asia, or in the Edgware Road"?

9. What is meant by the phrase, in Part V of "Little Gidding," "Every poem [is] an epitaph"?

10. What is the meaning of "Behovely" as it is used in the phrase, found in Part III of "Little Gidding" that, "Sin is Behovely"?

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