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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?
(a) Speaking and hearing.
(b) Reality and appearance.
(c) Truth and falsity.
(d) Dead and living.

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

3. The speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages" states that "the moments of" what "are likewise permanent"?
(a) Agony.
(b) Joy.
(c) Revelation.
(d) Time.

4. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?
(a) The darkness.
(b) Sanity.
(c) The light.
(d) Time.

5. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) Time future.
(b) The memory.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) The bowl of rose-leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the speaker's old master leave him at the end of Part II of "Little Gidding"?

2. By what are "Men and bits of paper" whirled about in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

3. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

4. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?

5. The speaker says near the end of Part III of "Little Gidding" that "We have taken from the defeated / What they had to leave us--a" what?

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