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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the speaker of East Coker parallel with "death" in the final lines of Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Life.
(b) Dung.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Drinking.

2. According to the speaker of "Little Gidding," history may be either freedom or what?
(a) False.
(b) Servitude.
(c) Solace.
(d) The future.

3. In the first line of Part III of "Little Gidding," it is said that there are how many "conditions which often look alike / Yet differ completely"?
(a) Nine.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) A hundred.

4. "Water and fire deride" that which "we denied," in Part II of "Little Gidding"?
(a) Our weakness.
(b) The guilt.
(c) The sacrifice.
(d) The earth.

5. The speaker states in the third part of "East Coker" that "In order to arrive at what you do not know / You must go by a way which is the way of" what?
(a) Principles.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Elders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the speaker in Part III of "Little Gidding," "Begins as attachment to our own field of action"?

2. The last two lines of Part IV of "Little Gidding" state that "We only live, only suspire / Consumed by either" what or what?

3. Time past and time future are said to "Allow but a little" what near the end of Part II of "Burnt Norton"?

4. The passengers on the train in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" are said to be not escaping from what?

5. The speaker states in "The Dry Salvages"'s last part that the "hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is" what?

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