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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 the answer to the question in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "Who then devised the torment"?
(a) Love.
(b) Humanity.
(c) The dove.
(d) Fire.

2. The speaker says in Part I of "Little Gidding" that there is a "windless cold that is the heart's" what?
(a) Fire.
(b) Death.
(c) Heat.
(d) Chill.

3. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The eddies of time.
(b) The gyre of history.
(c) The vacillation of spirit.
(d) The cold wind.

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

5. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Penance.
(b) Baptism.
(c) Communion.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?

2. 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?

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. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?

5. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

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