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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Into what are the "tongues of flame" said to be enfolded in the last lines of the poem, found in "Little Gidding"?
(a) The soul of all souls.
(b) The rose.
(c) The crowned knot of fire.
(d) The Beatific Vision.

2. The speaker asserts in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that there "is no end, but" what?
(a) A cycle.
(b) Oblivion.
(c) A renewal.
(d) Addition.

3. What is the answer to the question in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "Who then devised the torment"?
(a) Fire.
(b) Love.
(c) Humanity.
(d) The dove.

4. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The violent gaze.
(b) The shimmering water.
(c) The passing van.
(d) The grey stone.

5. 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) Despair.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Doubt.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker claims in Part V of "East Coker" that what "is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter"?

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

3. The speaker states in "Little Gidding"'s first part that "you are here... Where prayer has been valid" to do what?

4. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?

5. What is heard under "the oppression of the silent fog" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

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