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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Dung.
(b) Life.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Drinking.

2. What adjective is applied to "Friday" in the final line of Part IV of "East Coker"?
(a) New.
(b) Good.
(c) First.
(d) Bloody.

3. What did the speaker say to his soul twice in Part III of "East Coker"?
(a) Where art thou?
(b) You are dead.
(c) Let us go.
(d) Be still.

4. From what are the "strained time-ridden faces" of Part III of "Burnt Norton" distracted?
(a) Distraction.
(b) Stillness.
(c) Sincerity.
(d) Opulence.

5. Part V of "Little Gidding" states that "while the light fails / On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel / History is now and" what?
(a) The future.
(b) England.
(c) Evermore.
(d) The past.

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. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?

3. In the opening eight lines of the third part of "East Coker", the speaker mentions the "Directory of" what?

4. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?

5. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

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