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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?
(a) The water and fire.
(b) The marred foundations of earth.
(c) The parched eviscerate soil.
(d) The pasture and the weed.

2. Where, according to the first three lines of Part V of "Little Gidding," do "we start from?"
(a) The end.
(b) The middle.
(c) The beginning.
(d) Nowhere.

3. What is said in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" to be "no healer"?
(a) Patience.
(b) Truth.
(c) Time.
(d) Vanity.

4. What does the first line of "Little Gidding" say is its own season?
(a) A cool autumn evening.
(b) Midwinter spring.
(c) Late summer.
(d) A chilly spring day.

5. The speaker says near the end of Part III of "Little Gidding" that "We have taken from the defeated / What they had to leave us--a" what?
(a) Song.
(b) Vendetta.
(c) Symbol.
(d) Corpse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. Only by what does the speaker postulate in Part V of "Burnt Norton," that words or music can reach the stillness?

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

4. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?

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