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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Here.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) There.

2. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The wisdom of old men.
(b) The wisdom of humility.
(c) The wisdom of death.
(d) The wisdom of God.

3. Part I of "Little Gidding" states that there is "no wind, but" what in the "dark time of the year"?
(a) Silent howling.
(b) Pentecostal fire.
(c) Blinding specks of light.
(d) An answer on the air.

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

5. 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) Freedom and expression.
(b) Sin and sight.
(c) Reality and truth.
(d) Heaven and damnation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

2. The speaker states in "Little Gidding"'s first part that "you are here... Where prayer has been valid" to do what?

3. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?

4. It is said in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that man cannot think of "a future that is not liable / Like the past, to have no" what?

5. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?

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