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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in Part II of "Little Gidding," "Gapes at the vanity of toil, / Laughs without mirth"?
(a) The marred foundations of earth.
(b) The parched eviscerate soil.
(c) The pasture and the weed.
(d) The water and fire.

2. The speaker says in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" that "Between midnight and dawn... the past is all" what?
(a) Deception.
(b) Alive.
(c) Understood.
(d) Forgotten.

3. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?
(a) Time future.
(b) The rose-garden.
(c) The bowl of rose-leaves.
(d) The memory.

4. What does the speaker say that he believes to be a "strong brown god" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Death.
(b) The grizzly bear.
(c) The river.
(d) The earth.

5. What, according to the speaker in Part III of "Little Gidding," "Begins as attachment to our own field of action"?
(a) Love of a country.
(b) Expiation.
(c) Servitude.
(d) Indifference.

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. Which of the following does the speaker in Part I of "East Coker" not say replaces the lots where there used to be houses?

3. What, in the first line of "Burnt Norton," Part IV, are "time and the bell" said to have buried?

4. "But to apprehend / The point of intersection of the timeless / With time, is an occupation for" whom according to Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?

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

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