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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The dawn wind.
(b) I am here.
(c) In my beginning.
(d) In my end.

2. What is the answer to the question in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "Who then devised the torment"?
(a) The dove.
(b) Love.
(c) Fire.
(d) Humanity.

3. The speaker's interlocutor in Part II of "Little Gidding" says that "next year's words await another" what?
(a) Voice.
(b) Letter.
(c) Dictionary.
(d) Year.

4. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Appetency.
(b) Obstinacy.
(c) Frivolity.
(d) Fidelity.

5. Of what does the speaker claim in "Burnt Norton," Part V the detail is movement?
(a) The sight.
(b) The pattern.
(c) The future.
(d) The past.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Water and fire deride" that which "we denied," in Part II of "Little Gidding"?

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

3. The old master whom the speaker encounters states that he is not "eager to rehearse" what in Part II of "Little Gidding"?

4. The third of the "conditions which often look alike" in Part III of "Little Gidding" is what?

5. "Over the asphalt where no other sound was," what does the speaker of Part II of "Little Gidding" hear?

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