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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 are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Business letters.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Conversation.
(d) Periodicals.

2. By whom does the speaker say that the "brown god is almost forgotten" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Farmers.
(b) All mankind.
(c) Kings.
(d) City dwellers.

3. 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?
(a) The heavenly spheres.
(b) The world's end.
(c) The intersection of time and timelessness.
(d) The soul's desolation.

4. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?
(a) Freedom from care.
(b) Desire and despair.
(c) Absolute paternal care.
(d) Natural old age.

5. The final portion of Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" sees the speaker implore prayer on behalf of those who end "wherever cannot reach them the sound of the sea bell's" what?
(a) Eternal hymn.
(b) Reprieve from earthly hell.
(c) Perpetual angelus.
(d) Homeward swell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Part I of "Little Gidding" states that there is "no wind, but" what in the "dark time of the year"?

2. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?

3. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?

4. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?

5. Into what are the "tongues of flame" said to be enfolded in the last lines of the poem, found in "Little Gidding"?

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