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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whose funeral(s) do they all, in "East Coker," Part III, go?
(a) Their own.
(b) Nobody's.
(c) The petty contractors'.
(d) The Director's.

2. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?
(a) There.
(b) Here.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) Nowhere.

3. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of spirit.
(b) The world of solitude.
(c) The world of sense.
(d) The world of fancy.

4. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Those who are dead and buried.
(b) The roots of long-established families.
(c) Those who are asleep and preparing to farm.
(d) The ancestral tradition of the West.

5. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?
(a) Their folly.
(b) Their lives.
(c) Their wisdom.
(d) Their loves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Near the end of Part I of "Little Gidding," it is said that "the communication / Of the dead is tongued with" what?

3. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?

4. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?

5. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

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