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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 asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?
(a) The clematis.
(b) Wind.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Yew.

2. What is heard under "the oppression of the silent fog" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The tolling bell.
(b) The intimations of doom.
(c) The seagull's cry.
(d) The voices of the sea.

3. 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) Insular.
(b) Pedantic.
(c) Pointless.
(d) Periphrastic.

4. What must there not be in the way wherein one goes in order to get "there," according to the speaker of Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Faith.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Despair.

5. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The fog.
(b) The briar rose.
(c) The moonlight.
(d) The salt.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Burnt Norton," what is daylight said to invest form with in Part III, when it is present?

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

3. What is the answer to the question in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "Who then devised the torment"?

4. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?

5. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

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