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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. What, according to the speaker in Part III of "Little Gidding," "Begins as attachment to our own field of action"?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Love of a country.
(c) Servitude.
(d) Expiation.

2. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Periodicals.
(b) Business letters.
(c) Conversation.
(d) Fruit.

3. It is said in the second part of "The Dry Salvages" that when one becomes older it seems as though "the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a" what?
(a) Mere sequence.
(b) Daily ritual.
(c) Chronological order.
(d) Topological reality.

4. 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) Christ.
(b) Jove.
(c) Elijah.
(d) Krishna.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?

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

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

4. The last two lines of Part IV of "Little Gidding" state that "We only live, only suspire / Consumed by either" what or what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

2. How is "Time the destroyer" also "time the preserver," as stated in Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. What does the speaker mean in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" by "The tolling bell / Measures time not our time"?

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

6. What characterizes the "gifts reserved for age" which the interlocutor of Part II of "Little Gidding" describes to the poem's speaker?

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 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"?

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

10. 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"?

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