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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the final sentence of the third part of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says, "Not fare well, but fare" what," voyagers"?
(a) Fruitful.
(b) Fond.
(c) Forward.
(d) Future.

2. It is said in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that man cannot think of "a future that is not liable / Like the past, to have no" what?
(a) Sense.
(b) Purpose.
(c) Destination.
(d) End.

3. Which of the following are the passengers on the train, not said to be settled, in Part III of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Fruit.
(b) Conversation.
(c) Periodicals.
(d) Business letters.

4. What does the speaker claim in Part IV of "East Coker" is "Our only health"?
(a) The real.
(b) Despair.
(c) The disease.
(d) The truth.

5. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?
(a) They are being rolled away.
(b) They are being devoured.
(c) They are being covered up.
(d) They are being disintegrated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which flowers had "the look of flowers that are looked at" in Part I of "Burnt Norton"?

2. Of what world's inoperancy does the poem's narrator speak of in "Burnt Norton," Part III?

3. According to the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding," "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive" where?

4. What is heard in Part II upon the "sodden floor / Below" pursuing a pattern as before?

5. Which of the following is not cataloged by the speaker as something "long looked forward to" in the second part of "East Coker"?

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