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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?
(a) A whispered scream.
(b) A deceitful visage.
(c) A destructive fire.
(d) A known unknown.

2. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?
(a) The truth.
(b) The disease.
(c) Despair.
(d) The real.

3. By a grace of what was the speaker surrounded in "Burnt Norton," Part II?
(a) Incomprehensibility.
(b) Deprivation.
(c) Sense.
(d) Thought.

4. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?
(a) The drift of stars.
(b) Inveterate scars.
(c) Long forgotten wars.
(d) The circulation of the lymph.

5. What does the speaker in the "East Coker"'s fifth part claim becomes stranger as man grows older?
(a) His love.
(b) Himself.
(c) The world.
(d) The truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?

2. According to the speaker of "Little Gidding," history may be either freedom or what?

3. Of what growing terror does the speaker mention seeing in the deepening "mental emptiness," in Part III of "East Coker"?

4. The speaker says in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?

5. The speaker states, in the first part of "Burnt Norton," that what "might have been" is a(n) what?

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