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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 states in Part V of "Burnt Norton" that "Desire itself is movement," that is what?
(a) The cause and end of movement.
(b) Not in itself desirable.
(c) Itself unmoving.
(d) The quick of movement.

2. What is the last phrase of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) The dawn wind.
(b) In my beginning.
(c) I am here.
(d) In my end.

3. In what month would the auditor of the first part of "Little Gidding" find the hedges white again, "with voluptuary sweetness"?
(a) April.
(b) March.
(c) July.
(d) May.

4. What is said to be "heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all," in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Music.
(b) Nature.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Silence.

5. In the final lines of "The Dry Salvages," the speaker says that contentment is found at last "If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too far from the yew-tree) / The life of" what?
(a) Human fecundity.
(b) Earthly soul.
(c) Congenial thought.
(d) Significant soil.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the speaker of "Little Gidding," history may be either freedom or what?

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

3. If not, as stated in Part II, for what, there would be no dance?

4. In what way does the world move, according to the final three lines of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

5. The first part of "Burnt Norton" says that footfalls echo in what?

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