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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, in Part I of "East Coker" state that his auditor can hear in the open field on a summer midnight?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Nature.
(c) Music.
(d) Crying.

2. What, in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "descending breaks the air"?
(a) The dove.
(b) The flame.
(c) Time.
(d) The end.

3. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The temporal.
(b) The sensual.
(c) The shadow.
(d) The soul.

4. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?
(a) The promontory knives.
(b) The murmuring shell of time.
(c) The recession of fecundity.
(d) The opprobrius invective.

5. 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?
(a) Death.
(b) Movement.
(c) Truth.
(d) Light.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what world does the speaker mention descending in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?

2. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?

3. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?

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

5. What do the passengers watch widen behind them on the "deck of the drumming liner" in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

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