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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 speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The moonlight.
(b) The fog.
(c) The briar rose.
(d) The salt.

2. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?
(a) Deception.
(b) Forgotten.
(c) Alive.
(d) Understood.

3. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Silence.
(b) Nature.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Music.

4. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?
(a) The parched eviscerate soil.
(b) The marred foundations of earth.
(c) The pasture and the weed.
(d) The water and fire.

5. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?
(a) Temporality.
(b) History.
(c) Others.
(d) Action.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?

2. Between what are the "children in the apple-tree... heard, half-heard" in the last part of "Little Gidding"?

3. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

4. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

5. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?

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