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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The still point of the turning world.
(b) The memory of inveterate scars.
(c) The artery of truth.
(d) The bedded axle-tree.

2. Where, according to the first three lines of Part V of "Little Gidding," do "we start from?"
(a) Nowhere.
(b) The end.
(c) The middle.
(d) The beginning.

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

4. The speaker tells his auditor in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "If you came this way... At any time or at any season... you would have to put off" what?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Selfishness.
(c) Sense and notion.
(d) Truth and justice.

5. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?
(a) The sun.
(b) The truth.
(c) The day.
(d) The night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?

2. The speaker, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?

3. What goes in and out of "unwholesome lungs" in Part III of "Burnt Norton"?

4. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?

5. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?

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