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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?
(a) The petty contractors'.
(b) Their own.
(c) Nobody's.
(d) The Director's.

2. The speaker asserts in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that the sea has many what?
(a) Truths and half-truths.
(b) Gods and voices.
(c) Tragedies and failings.
(d) Stories and whispers.

3. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Means to.
(b) Assurance of.
(c) Uncertainty about.
(d) Freedom from.

4. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Implicit.
(b) Ecstatic.
(c) Spiritually imbued.
(d) Explicit.

5. 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) Twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?

2. The speaker says in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "what you thought you came for / Is only a" what?

3. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?

4. Part V of "Little Gidding" states that "while the light fails / On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel / History is now and" what?

5. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?

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