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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 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.

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) Assumption.
(b) Amelioration.
(c) Annunciation.
(d) Apocalypse.

3. In what month would the auditor of the first part of "Little Gidding" find the hedges white again, "with voluptuary sweetness"?
(a) July.
(b) May.
(c) April.
(d) March.

4. The old master whom the speaker encounters states that he is not "eager to rehearse" what in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) Their old friendship.
(b) The account of his death.
(c) The lines of a poem.
(d) His thoughts and theory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?

2. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?

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

4. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?

5. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

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