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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 third of the "conditions which often look alike" in Part III of "Little Gidding" is what?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Fear.
(d) Apathy.

2. In the litany of "usual / Pastimes and drugs, and features of the press," given in Part V of "The Dry Salvages," communication with which god is listed?
(a) The Triune God.
(b) Krishna.
(c) Arjuna.
(d) Mars.

3. What is the first of the "gifts reserved for age" that the speaker's interlocutor discloses in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) The laceration / Of laughter at what ceases to amuse.
(b) The cold friction of expiring sense / Without enchantment.
(c) The rending pain of re-enactment / Of all that you have done, and been.
(d) The conscious impotence of rage / At human folly.

4. With what do "we challenge / The first-met stranger in the waning dusk," according to the speaker in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) A curious glance.
(b) A brave face.
(c) Affected nonchalance.
(d) Pointed scrutiny.

5. 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 dark of midnight.
(c) In the waning light of evening.
(d) The uncertain hour before morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first of the "conditions which often look alike" in Part III of "Little Gidding" is said to be attachment to what?

2. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. 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?

4. "But to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time, is an occupation for" whom according to Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. "Over the asphalt where no other sound was," what does the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" hear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is signified by the statement, in the final part of "Little Gidding," that "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time"?

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

3. What is the significance of the lines in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "Only the hardly, barely prayable / Prayer of the one Annunciation"?

4. What is meant by the line, "You are not the same people who left that station," in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. Why is the "strong brown god" of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" "almost forgotten / By the dwellers in cities"?

6. What does the speaker mean when he states, in the last part of "The Dry Salvages," that "Here the impossible union / Of spheres of existence is actual"?

7. What is an interpretative way to read the significance of the "ragged rock" being "what it always was," at the end of Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

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

10. What is meant in Part III of "Little Gidding" by "We cannot revive old factions / We cannot restore old policies / Or follow an antique drum"?

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