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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) The cook.
(b) His wounds.
(c) The steel.
(d) His eyes.

2. With whom, according to the last part of "Little Gidding," are "we" born?
(a) The world.
(b) Our parents.
(c) Our children.
(d) The dead.

3. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Darkness.
(b) Thought.
(c) Waiting.
(d) Light.

4. "Over the asphalt where no other sound was," what does the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" hear?
(a) Dead leaves.
(b) Rattling tin.
(c) Flickering candles.
(d) Distant footsteps.

5. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?
(a) The stars.
(b) The heart of the world.
(c) The still point.
(d) The boar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "descending breaks the air"?

2. "But to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time, is an occupation for" whom according to Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

3. 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?

4. The people spoken of in Part III, of "Little Gidding," who are "All touched by a common genius," are united in what?

5. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?

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