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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a synonym for the word "eructation," used in the third part of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Belching.
(b) Obviation.
(c) Destruction.
(d) Building-up.

2. 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) Elijah.
(c) Jove.
(d) Krishna.

3. In what month would the auditor of the first part of "Little Gidding" find the hedges white again, "with voluptuary sweetness"?
(a) May.
(b) April.
(c) July.
(d) March.

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

5. "Water and fire deride" that which "we denied," in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) Our weakness.
(b) The sacrifice.
(c) The earth.
(d) The guilt.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?

2. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

3. Of what wisdom does the speaker hope to acquire, as stated near the end of Part II of "East Coker"?

4. The speaker tells his auditor in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "If you came this way... At any time or at any season... you would have to put off" what?

5. It is said in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that man cannot think of "a future that is not liable / Like the past, to have no" what?

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