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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker implores that a prayer be repeated on behalf of whom, in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) Pagans.
(c) All Christians.
(d) Bereaved women.

2. Between what are the "children in the apple-tree... heard, half-heard" in the last part of "Little Gidding"?
(a) Time future and time past.
(b) Death and life.
(c) Pyre and pyre.
(d) Two waves.

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

4. What does the "wounded surgeon" ply in the first line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) The cook.
(b) The steel.
(c) His eyes.
(d) His wounds.

5. In addition to the life of the present individual and his peers, the speaker says in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that "the past experience revived in the meaning / Is not the experience of one life only," but of whom?
(a) Antiquity.
(b) Posterity.
(c) The eternal.
(d) Many generations.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the "periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion" leave one to wrestle, as stated in the second part of "East Coker"'?

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

3. What must there not be in the way wherein one goes in order to get "there," according to the speaker of Part III of "East Coker"?

4. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

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