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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the speaker, the brown god's rhythm "was present in the nursery bedroom, / In the rank ailanthus of" the dooryard of what month?
(a) March.
(b) July.
(c) September.
(d) April.

2. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?
(a) Not in itself desirable.
(b) The quick of movement.
(c) Itself unmoving.
(d) The cause and end of movement.

3. Part V of "Little Gidding" states that "while the light fails / On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel / History is now and" what?
(a) The future.
(b) England.
(c) Evermore.
(d) The past.

4. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?
(a) Opulence.
(b) Sincerity.
(c) Stillness.
(d) Distraction.

5. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Sense.
(c) Faith.
(d) Thought.

Short Answer 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?

2. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?

3. In what are the "Earth feet, loam feet" of Part I of "East Coker" lifted?

4. What is the "it" in "The Dry Salvages," Part II's final clause, "is what it always was"?

5. In what way did the speaker, his auditor, and the flowers move in the garden of Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

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