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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Darkness.
(b) Light.
(c) Thought.
(d) Waiting.

3. The people spoken of in Part III, of "Little Gidding," who are "All touched by a common genius," are united in what?
(a) The obliteration of care.
(b) The transfiguration of the community.
(c) The strife which divided them.
(d) The kinship of their patrimonies.

4. The speaker says in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "what you thought you came for / Is only a" what?
(a) Miracle.
(b) Shell.
(c) Falsehood.
(d) Tomb.

5. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?
(a) The deep lane.
(b) The village street.
(c) The open field.
(d) The gray stones.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that the God of the bone's prayer is whom?

2. According to the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding," "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive" where?

3. It is said in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that man cannot think of "a future that is not liable / Like the past, to have no" what?

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

5. Krishna is said to have admonished whom on the field of battle in the latter portion of the third part of "The Dry Salvages"?

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