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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?
(a) An open field.
(b) A haphazard pile of flats.
(c) A by-pass.
(d) A factory.

2. What sort of bird is in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) A sparrow.
(b) A falcon.
(c) A thrush.
(d) A robin.

3. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Desire.
(b) Death.
(c) Time.
(d) Love.

4. What inhabits the garden of "Burnt Norton"'s first part?
(a) Other times.
(b) Other footfalls.
(c) Other birds.
(d) Other echoes.

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) Snow.
(d) Sunlight.

Short Answer Questions

1. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

2. It is said in the second part of "The Dry Salvages" that when one becomes older it seems as though "the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a" what?

3. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?

4. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

5. 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?

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