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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is desiccated when the speaker descends into a different world in the latter lines of "Burnt Norton," Part III?
(a) The world of fancy.
(b) The world of solitude.
(c) The world of sense.
(d) The world of spirit.

2. 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"?
(a) Despair.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Faith.
(d) Doubt.

3. What, in the desert of "Burnt Norton," Part V, is "most attacked by voices of temptation"?
(a) The beautiful.
(b) The soul.
(c) The man.
(d) The Word.

4. What does the speaker state is the "land's edge also" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The horizon.
(b) The sky.
(c) The river.
(d) The sea.

5. 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?
(a) Movement.
(b) Truth.
(c) Death.
(d) Light.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" state sleeps "in the empty silence"?

4. The speaker, in the first line of Part III of "The Dry Salvages," says that he sometimes wonders if "that" is what he meant?

5. Across what does the light fall, mentioned by the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" after the second time he utters the phrase "In my beginning is my end"?

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