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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the speaker in Part V of "Little Gidding," "the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive" where?
(a) Where time is not.
(b) Where we always were.
(c) Where we started.
(d) Where no one has been before.

2. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?
(a) Invocation.
(b) Incarnation.
(c) Annunciation.
(d) Annihilation.

3. The final line of Part III of "East Coker" claims that "where you are is" what?
(a) Where you are.
(b) Where you will be.
(c) Where you are not.
(d) Where you have been.

4. The speaker says in Part I of "Little Gidding" that "this is the nearest, in place and time, / Now and in England." To what is "this" the nearest?
(a) The intersection of time and timelessness.
(b) The world's end.
(c) The soul's desolation.
(d) The heavenly spheres.

5. The speaker says in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" that the mind of a man may be intent, at the time of death, on whatever sphere of what?
(a) Thought.
(b) Truth.
(c) Time.
(d) Being.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?

2. In what do faith, hope, and love all reside, according to Part III of "East Coker"?

3. What, towards the end of "Burnt Norton"'s first part, rose quietly out of the water that came from sunlight?

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

5. "Our own past is covered," says the speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages," "by the currents of" what?

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