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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 says near the end of Part V of "East Coker" that old men ought to be what?
(a) Friends.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Explorers.
(d) Grievers.

2. Under what are all of the dancers gone, according to the last line of Part II of "East Coker"?
(a) The sky.
(b) The hill.
(c) The sea.
(d) The earth.

3. 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) The eternal.
(c) Many generations.
(d) Posterity.

4. The speaker of Part III of "The Dry Salvages" states that there is a voice descanting what?
(a) The murmuring shell of time.
(b) The recession of fecundity.
(c) The promontory knives.
(d) The opprobrius invective.

5. In the first line of Part III of "Little Gidding," it is said that there are how many "conditions which often look alike / Yet differ completely"?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) A hundred.
(d) Nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. If "we" in Part IV of "East Coker" do well in the whole earth, as "our hospital," of what shall we die?

2. What does the speaker say is all he can utter concerning where "we have been" in Part II?

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

4. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

5. In the first few lines of Part II of "Little Gidding," it reads that "Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where" what ended?

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