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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?
(a) A frivolous thought.
(b) A perpetual possibility.
(c) A passive potency.
(d) An unrealized actuality.

2. The speaker says in Part I of "Little Gidding" that "this is the nearest, in place and time, / Now and in England." To what is "this" the nearest?
(a) The intersection of time and timelessness.
(b) The heavenly spheres.
(c) The soul's desolation.
(d) The world's end.

3. What is a synonymous word or phrase for the word "fructify," used in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Bear fruit.
(b) Calcify.
(c) Solidify.
(d) Become sugar.

4. Between what are the "children in the apple-tree... heard, half-heard" in the last part of "Little Gidding"?
(a) Time future and time past.
(b) Pyre and pyre.
(c) Two waves.
(d) Death and life.

5. With what are the "tattered arras" woven in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) A silent motto.
(b) A field-mouse.
(c) Luminescent thread.
(d) Disconsolate eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?

2. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?

3. In what form is love caught, between un-being and being, according to Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

4. The speaker states in "Little Gidding"'s first part that "you are here... Where prayer has been valid" to do 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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