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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Part I of "Little Gidding" states that there is "no wind, but" what in the "dark time of the year"?
(a) Pentecostal fire.
(b) Blinding specks of light.
(c) Silent howling.
(d) An answer on the air.

2. What do the passengers watch widen behind them on the "deck of the drumming liner" in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The horizon.
(b) The rails.
(c) The furrow.
(d) The station.

3. Where was the "unheard music" hidden in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The shrubbery.
(b) The forest.
(c) Outside the garden.
(d) Under the earth.

4. In the final sentence of the third part of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says, "Not fare well, but fare" what," voyagers"?
(a) Fond.
(b) Fruitful.
(c) Future.
(d) Forward.

5. The passengers on the train in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" are said to be not escaping from what?
(a) Death.
(b) The past.
(c) The future.
(d) Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" meet "one walking, loitering and hurried"?

2. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. The speaker says in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?

4. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

5. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?

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