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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?
(a) Eternity.
(b) Truth.
(c) Time.
(d) Death.

2. What does the speaker say that he believes to be a "strong brown god" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Death.
(b) The earth.
(c) The river.
(d) The grizzly bear.

3. The final portion of Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" sees the speaker implore prayer on behalf of those who end "wherever cannot reach them the sound of the sea bell's" what?
(a) Perpetual angelus.
(b) Homeward swell.
(c) Eternal hymn.
(d) Reprieve from earthly hell.

4. What, according to the speaker in Part III of "Little Gidding," "Begins as attachment to our own field of action"?
(a) Servitude.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Love of a country.
(d) Expiation.

5. Into what did the characters of "Burnt Norton"'s first part look towards the end?
(a) The sky.
(b) A mirror.
(c) Their souls.
(d) A pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages" states that "the moments of" what "are likewise permanent"?

2. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

3. The speaker says in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "what you thought you came for / Is only a" what?

4. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?

5. What do the passengers watch widen behind them on the "deck of the drumming liner" in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

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