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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Words and music are said to move, in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton," only in what?
(a) Men's minds.
(b) The wind.
(c) Time.
(d) Truth and falsity.

3. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Ten.

4. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?
(a) Art.
(b) The dark.
(c) The light.
(d) The civil service.

5. It is said in the second part of "The Dry Salvages" that when one becomes older it seems as though "the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a" what?
(a) Mere sequence.
(b) Chronological order.
(c) Topological reality.
(d) Daily ritual.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

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

3. Above what do the speaker and his companions move in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

4. What does the speaker, in Part I of "East Coker" state that his auditor can hear in the open field on a summer midnight?

5. The speaker asks, in "Burnt Norton," Part IV, if chill fingers of what "be curled / Down on us"?

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