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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you are not.
(b) Where you are.
(c) Where you will be.
(d) Where you have been.

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?
(a) Daily ritual.
(b) Chronological order.
(c) Topological reality.
(d) Mere sequence.

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

4. Whose hidden laughter in the foliage does the speaker mention in the final lines of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Children.
(b) Fairies.
(c) Memories.
(d) Whispers.

5. Describing the correct cohesion of language, the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding" describes the "common word exact without vulgarity, / The formal word precise but not" what?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Periphrastic.
(c) Insular.
(d) Pointless.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

2. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?

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

5. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?

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