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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does the speaker's old master leave him at the end of Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) A withering rose.
(b) A kind of valediction.
(c) An incommunicable sorrow.
(d) A company of nameless ghosts.

2. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Darkness.
(b) Light.
(c) Waiting.
(d) Thought.

3. "But to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time, is an occupation for" whom according to Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The philosopher.
(b) The common man.
(c) The mystic.
(d) The saint.

4. The speaker claims in Part V of "East Coker" that what "is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter"?
(a) Man.
(b) Love.
(c) Time.
(d) Truth.

5. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The world of lachrymose souls.
(b) The world of ineffable sound.
(c) The world without man.
(d) The world of perpetual solitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the speaker of "Little Gidding," history may be either freedom or what?

2. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?

4. In the final sentence of the third part of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says, "Not fare well, but fare" what," voyagers"?

5. The speaker states in Part III of "Little Gidding" that "It is not to ring the bell backward / Nor is it an incantation / To summon the spectre of a" what?

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