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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Only through what can time, as stated in the final line of "Burnt Norton," Part II, be conquered?
(a) Death.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Truth.
(d) Time.

2. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?
(a) The night.
(b) The sun.
(c) The day.
(d) The truth.

3. By whom does the speaker say that the "brown god is almost forgotten" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) All mankind.
(b) Farmers.
(c) City dwellers.
(d) Kings.

4. The speaker says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?
(a) Explorers.
(b) Friends.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Grievers.

5. "Garlic and sapphires in the mud," described at the outset of Part II, clot what?
(a) The bedded axle-tree.
(b) The still point of the turning world.
(c) The memory of inveterate scars.
(d) The artery of truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?

2. The speaker states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?

3. Near the end of Part I of "Little Gidding," it is said that "the communication / Of the dead is tongued with" what?

4. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?

5. What is disturbed on the bowl of rose-leaves, as mentioned in the first part of "Burnt Norton"?

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