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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The speaker asks in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" when there will be an end to "the unprayable / Prayer at the calamitous" what?
(a) Amelioration.
(b) Annunciation.
(c) Apocalypse.
(d) Assumption.

3. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you are.
(b) Where you will be.
(c) Where you are not.
(d) Where you have been.

4. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?
(a) Opulence.
(b) Sincerity.
(c) Distraction.
(d) Stillness.

5. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?
(a) Negation of humanity.
(b) Truth and judgment.
(c) Assertion and denial.
(d) Words and meanings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?

2. The speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages" states that "the moments of" what "are likewise permanent"?

3. 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?

4. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in 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?

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