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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. History is said, in Part V of "Little Gidding," to be a pattern of what?
(a) Half-realized realities.
(b) Timeless moments.
(c) Incalculable chunks.
(d) Perceived perceptions.

2. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Memory.
(b) The bird.
(c) Time future.
(d) Dust.

3. The interlocutor of Part II of "Little Gidding" states that the "Fullfed beast shall kick " what?
(a) The societal structure.
(b) The vile trough.
(c) The empty pail.
(d) The underfed man.

4. What does the speaker state is eternally present in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Reality.
(b) The truth.
(c) All of time.
(d) The future.

5. The first of the "conditions which often look alike" in Part III of "Little Gidding" is said to be attachment to what?
(a) Self, things, and persons.
(b) Life.
(c) Family, friends, and love.
(d) Self.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. In the final sentence of the third part of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says, "Not fare well, but fare" what," voyagers"?

3. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

4. The speaker says near the end of Part III of "Little Gidding" that "We have taken from the defeated / What they had to leave us--a" what?

5. Near the end of Part I of "Little Gidding," it is said that "the communication / Of the dead is tongued with" what?

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