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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 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) God.
(b) Rose.
(c) Truth.
(d) Ghost.

2. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?
(a) The sounds of summer.
(b) The dahlias.
(c) The early owls.
(d) The noonday sun.

3. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) Time future.
(b) The rose-garden.
(c) The bowl of rose-leaves.
(d) The memory.

4. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?
(a) Annunciation.
(b) Incarnation.
(c) Annihilation.
(d) Invocation.

5. What, described in Part I of "Burnt Norton," lays on the other side of the door that the speaker and his auditor never opened?
(a) Possibility.
(b) The rose-garden.
(c) The bird.
(d) Time future.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

2. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?

3. In the final lines of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says that contentment is found at last "If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too far from the yew-tree) / The life of" what?

4. What do the passengers watch widen behind them on the "deck of the drumming liner" in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

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