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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?
(a) A destructive fire.
(b) A deceitful visage.
(c) A whispered scream.
(d) A known unknown.

2. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The ancestral tradition of the West.
(b) Those who are dead and buried.
(c) Those who are asleep and preparing to farm.
(d) The roots of long-established families.

3. 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 pasture and the weed.
(d) The parched eviscerate soil.

4. The speaker states in Part III of "Little Gidding" that "It is not to ring the bell backward / Nor is it an incantation / To summon the spectre of a" what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Rose.
(c) Ghost.
(d) God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say that he believes to be a "strong brown god" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

3. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

4. It is said in the second part of "The Dry Salvages" that when one becomes older it seems as though "the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a" what?

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

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