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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 first line of "Little Gidding" say is its own season?
(a) Midwinter spring.
(b) Late summer.
(c) A cool autumn evening.
(d) A chilly spring day.

2. What is heard under "the oppression of the silent fog" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The seagull's cry.
(b) The intimations of doom.
(c) The tolling bell.
(d) The voices of the sea.

3. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Obstinacy.
(b) Appetency.
(c) Fidelity.
(d) Frivolity.

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?
(a) Perpetual angelus.
(b) Reprieve from earthly hell.
(c) Eternal hymn.
(d) Homeward swell.

5. The speaker states in the third part of "Little Gidding" that "We cannot restore policies / Or follow" what?
(a) An outdated faith.
(b) An antique drum.
(c) An inconstant beat.
(d) A crippled old man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?

2. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

3. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?

4. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?

5. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

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