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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

2. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?
(a) Long forgotten wars.
(b) The circulation of the lymph.
(c) Inveterate scars.
(d) The drift of stars.

3. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) Desire.
(d) Time.

4. What is heard under "the oppression of the silent fog" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The intimations of doom.
(b) The tolling bell.
(c) The seagull's cry.
(d) The voices of the sea.

5. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?
(a) Incarnation.
(b) Annunciation.
(c) Annihilation.
(d) Invocation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of the "gifts reserved for age" that the speaker's interlocutor discloses in Part II of "Little Gidding"?

2. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?

3. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

5. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

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