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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 "Little Gidding"'s first part that "you are here... Where prayer has been valid" to do what?
(a) Kneel.
(b) Carry report.
(c) Instruct yourself.
(d) Pray.

2. "But to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time, is an occupation for" whom according to Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The mystic.
(b) The common man.
(c) The philosopher.
(d) The saint.

3. In Part II of "East Coker," against what does the "Scorpion" fight?
(a) The Sun.
(b) The Stars.
(c) Venus.
(d) The Moon.

4. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?
(a) The machinations of men.
(b) The long forgotten wars.
(c) The boarhound and the boar.
(d) The fixity of time.

5. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The salt.
(b) The fog.
(c) The moonlight.
(d) The briar rose.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is said in the second part of "The Dry Salvages" that when one becomes older it seems as though "the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a" what?

2. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

4. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?

5. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?

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