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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?
(a) The lotos.
(b) The bird.
(c) Children.
(d) The cloud.

2. The speaker says in Part I of "Little Gidding" that "this is the nearest, in place and time, / Now and in England." To what is "this" the nearest?
(a) The soul's desolation.
(b) The heavenly spheres.
(c) The world's end.
(d) The intersection of time and timelessness.

3. It is said in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that man cannot think of "a future that is not liable / Like the past, to have no" what?
(a) Destination.
(b) End.
(c) Sense.
(d) Purpose.

4. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?
(a) Stars.
(b) Directors.
(c) Lights.
(d) Papers.

5. The hedgerow is said in Part I of "Little Gidding" to be "blanched for an hour with transitory blossom" of what?
(a) Moonlight.
(b) Celestial tears.
(c) Sunlight.
(d) Snow.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?

2. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?

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

4. The final portion of Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" sees the speaker implore prayer on behalf of those who end "wherever cannot reach them the sound of the sea bell's" what?

5. With what do "we challenge / The first-met stranger in the waning dusk," according to the speaker in Part II of "Little Gidding"?

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