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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 III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?
(a) Thought.
(b) Truth.
(c) Time.
(d) Being.

2. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Light.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Waiting.
(d) Thought.

3. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Nature.
(b) Silence.
(c) Music.
(d) Wisdom.

4. Of what instrument's stillness, "while the note lasts," does the speaker explicitly speak in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) The organ.
(b) The violin.
(c) The piano.
(d) The cello.

5. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?
(a) The Lady's.
(b) Mars'.
(c) Krishna's.
(d) Christ's.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Which of the following is found at the still point of the world, as described in Part II?

3. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

4. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?

5. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?

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