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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?
(a) Lights.
(b) Papers.
(c) Directors.
(d) Stars.

3. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Of having nothing to think about.
(b) Of starving to death.
(c) Of having no one to talk to.
(d) Of being alone with oneself.

4. What is the answer to the question in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "Who then devised the torment"?
(a) Fire.
(b) Love.
(c) The dove.
(d) Humanity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?

2. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?

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

4. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?

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

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