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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 the third part of "East Coker" that "In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of" what?
(a) Principles.
(b) Elders.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Ignorance.

2. 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"?
(a) Three.
(b) Nine.
(c) Four.
(d) A hundred.

3. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?
(a) Suggestive permanence.
(b) Transient beauty.
(c) Lucid stillness.
(d) Affective aesthesis.

4. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?
(a) The parched eviscerate soil.
(b) The water and fire.
(c) The pasture and the weed.
(d) The marred foundations of earth.

5. Part V of "Little Gidding" states that "while the light fails / On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel / History is now and" what?
(a) Evermore.
(b) The future.
(c) England.
(d) The past.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the speaker, the brown god's rhythm "was present in the nursery bedroom, / In the rank ailanthus of" the dooryard of what month?

2. The speaker questions whether or not who had "deceived us / Or deceived themselves" in Part II of "East Coker"?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Into what are the "tongues of flame" said to be enfolded in the last lines of the poem, found in "Little Gidding"?

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