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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The form of foolishness.
(b) The form of limitation.
(c) The form of passion.
(d) The form of temporality.

2. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Of starving to death.
(b) Of being alone with oneself.
(c) Of having no one to talk to.
(d) Of having nothing to think about.

3. What in Part V of "The Dry Salvages" "searches past and future / And clings to that dimension"?
(a) The man of angst.
(b) The remembrance of the old.
(c) The gaze of the young.
(d) Men's curiosity.

4. What does the first line of "Little Gidding" say is its own season?
(a) A chilly spring day.
(b) Midwinter spring.
(c) Late summer.
(d) A cool autumn evening.

5. The speaker implores that a prayer be repeated on behalf of whom, in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) Pagans.
(c) Bereaved women.
(d) All Christians.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month would the auditor of the first part of "Little Gidding" find the hedges white again, "with voluptuary sweetness"?

2. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?

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

4. With what does the speaker's old master leave him at the end of Part II of "Little Gidding"?

5. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?

(see the answer key)

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