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

2. With what do "we challenge / The first-met stranger in the waning dusk," according to the speaker in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) A brave face.
(b) A curious glance.
(c) Pointed scrutiny.
(d) Affected nonchalance.

3. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?
(a) Distraction.
(b) Sincerity.
(c) Opulence.
(d) Stillness.

4. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?
(a) Speaking and hearing.
(b) Truth and falsity.
(c) Reality and appearance.
(d) Dead and living.

5. 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?
(a) The eternal.
(b) Posterity.
(c) Antiquity.
(d) Many generations.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first line of Part III of "Little Gidding," it is said that there are how many "conditions which often look alike / Yet differ completely"?

2. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?

3. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?

4. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?

5. What must there not be in the way wherein one goes in order to get "there," according to the speaker of Part III of "East Coker"?

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