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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?
(a) Men's minds.
(b) Truth and falsity.
(c) Time.
(d) The wind.

4. To what agony do the "Whisper of running streams" and "The laughter in the garden" point, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Love and loss.
(b) Freedom and responsibility.
(c) Autumn and winter.
(d) Death and birth.

5. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Explicit.
(b) Ecstatic.
(c) Implicit.
(d) Spiritually imbued.

Short Answer Questions

1. The interlocutor of Part II of "Little Gidding" states that the "Fullfed beast shall kick " what?

2. The speaker in the "The Dry Salvages"'s third part, enjoins his auditor to consider the future and the past with what?

3. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

4. The people spoken of in Part III, of "Little Gidding," who are "All touched by a common genius," are united in what?

5. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?

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