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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. History is said, in Part V of "Little Gidding," to be a pattern of what?
(a) Perceived perceptions.
(b) Timeless moments.
(c) Incalculable chunks.
(d) Half-realized realities.

2. What, in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "descending breaks the air"?
(a) The end.
(b) Time.
(c) The flame.
(d) The dove.

3. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The sea.
(b) The hill.
(c) The earth.
(d) The sky.

4. The speaker states in Part III of "Little Gidding" that "It is not to ring the bell backward / Nor is it an incantation / To summon the spectre of a" what?
(a) Rose.
(b) Truth.
(c) God.
(d) Ghost.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the speaker NOT say man must think of as forever doing in Part II of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. According to the speaker in Part II of "The Dry Salvages," what he calls "Time the destroyer" is also what?

3. The speaker says in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "what you thought you came for / Is only a" what?

4. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?

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

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