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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Dung.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Life.

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

3. What is a synonymous word or phrase for the word "fructify," used in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Calcify.
(b) Bear fruit.
(c) Become sugar.
(d) Solidify.

4. The speaker says in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "what you thought you came for / Is only a" what?
(a) Tomb.
(b) Shell.
(c) Miracle.
(d) Falsehood.

5. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?
(a) The long forgotten wars.
(b) The boarhound and the boar.
(c) The machinations of men.
(d) The fixity of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what are the "tongues of flame" said to be enfolded in the last lines of the poem, found in "Little Gidding"?

2. In what month would the auditor of the first part of "Little Gidding" find the hedges white again, "with voluptuary sweetness"?

3. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?

4. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

5. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?

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