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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?
(a) Heaven and damnation.
(b) Reality and truth.
(c) Sin and sight.
(d) Freedom and expression.

3. The speaker asserts in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that the sea has many what?
(a) Tragedies and failings.
(b) Gods and voices.
(c) Stories and whispers.
(d) Truths and half-truths.

4. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?
(a) Movement.
(b) Light.
(c) Death.
(d) Truth.

5. The speaker says in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "what you thought you came for / Is only a" what?
(a) Falsehood.
(b) Shell.
(c) Tomb.
(d) Miracle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to the life of the present individual and his peers, the speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that "the past experience revived in the meaning / Is not the experience of one life only," but of whom?

2. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

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

4. 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?

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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