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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?
(a) Time immemorial.
(b) The roots of the earth.
(c) Anxious worried women.
(d) The swell of the sea.

2. 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) The rose-garden.
(b) Possibility.
(c) Time future.
(d) The bird.

3. 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) Ghost.
(c) Rose.
(d) God.

4. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?
(a) Deception.
(b) Understood.
(c) Forgotten.
(d) Alive.

5. The old master whom the speaker encounters states that he is not "eager to rehearse" what in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) The account of his death.
(b) Their old friendship.
(c) The lines of a poem.
(d) His thoughts and theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the "wailing warning " of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" come?

2. The speaker's interlocutor in Part II of "Little Gidding" says that "next year's words await another" what?

3. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?

4. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?

5. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

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