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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) The bowl of rose-leaves.
(b) The memory.
(c) The rose-garden.
(d) Time future.

2. The speaker states that a new world and the old are made what in Part II of "Burnt Norton"?
(a) Ecstatic.
(b) Implicit.
(c) Explicit.
(d) Spiritually imbued.

3. Describing the correct cohesion of language, the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding" describes the "common word exact without vulgarity, / The formal word precise but not" what?
(a) Insular.
(b) Periphrastic.
(c) Pedantic.
(d) Pointless.

4. When darkness is present, as stated in the third part of "Burnt Norton," from what does it cleanse affection?
(a) The temporal.
(b) The soul.
(c) The sensual.
(d) The shadow.

5. 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?
(a) Truth.
(b) Thought.
(c) Being.
(d) Time.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker claims in Part V of "East Coker" that what "is most nearly itself / When here and now cease to matter"?

2. What does the speaker say "Crack and sometimes break, under the burden," in Part V of "Burnt Norton"?

3. What does the derived knowledge, spoken of in Part II of "East Coker" impose and falsify?

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

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

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