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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the speaker, the brown god's rhythm "was present in the nursery bedroom, / In the rank ailanthus of" the dooryard of what month?
(a) September.
(b) March.
(c) July.
(d) April.

2. What is the first of the "gifts reserved for age" that the speaker's interlocutor discloses in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) The cold friction of expiring sense / Without enchantment.
(b) The laceration / Of laughter at what ceases to amuse.
(c) The conscious impotence of rage / At human folly.
(d) The rending pain of re-enactment / Of all that you have done, and been.

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

4. What does the speaker say that he believes to be a "strong brown god" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The river.
(b) The grizzly bear.
(c) The earth.
(d) Death.

5. Describing the correct cohesion of language, the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding" describes the "common word exact without vulgarity, / The formal word precise but not" what?
(a) Pedantic.
(b) Pointless.
(c) Insular.
(d) Periphrastic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?

2. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

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

4. The speaker's interlocutor in Part II of "Little Gidding" says that "next year's words await another" what?

5. In what must the speaker "freeze / And quake" in order to be warmed, as described in "East Coker"'s fourth part?

(see the answer key)

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