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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the "it" in "The Dry Salvages," Part II's final clause, "is what it always was"?
(a) Time.
(b) The sudden fury.
(c) The ragged rock.
(d) The halcyon day.

3. The speaker, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?
(a) Christ.
(b) Jove.
(c) Krishna.
(d) Elijah.

4. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?
(a) A myth.
(b) An image.
(c) An apodictic statement.
(d) A pattern.

5. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Thought.
(b) Sense.
(c) Faith.
(d) Consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

3. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?

4. The speaker in the "The Dry Salvages"'s third part, enjoins his auditor to consider the future and the past with what?

5. The speaker states in the third part of "Little Gidding" that "We cannot restore policies / Or follow" what?

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