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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Little Gidding.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?
(a) A pattern.
(b) An apodictic statement.
(c) A myth.
(d) An image.

2. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?
(a) Krishna's.
(b) The Lady's.
(c) Christ's.
(d) Mars'.

3. Into what did the characters of "Burnt Norton"'s first part look towards the end?
(a) A pool.
(b) The sky.
(c) Their souls.
(d) A mirror.

4. In the fifth part of "East Coker" the speaker claims that there is only the fight to do what?
(a) Recover what has been lost.
(b) Renew what has grown stale.
(c) Distance oneself from failure.
(d) Revitalize the human race.

5. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?
(a) Despair.
(b) The truth.
(c) The real.
(d) The disease.

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. 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?

3. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?

4. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?

5. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?

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