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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 we always were.
(b) Where we started.
(c) Where no one has been before.
(d) Where time is not.

2. What is said in Part III of "The Dry Salvages" to be "no healer"?
(a) Time.
(b) Truth.
(c) Patience.
(d) Vanity.

3. The "time" which the speaker mentions in Part I of "The Dry Salvages" is older than "time counted by" what?
(a) Time immemorial.
(b) Anxious worried women.
(c) The roots of the earth.
(d) The swell of the sea.

4. With regards to the past and future, right action is said to be what by the speaker in Part V of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) Freedom from.
(b) Uncertainty about.
(c) Means to.
(d) Assurance of.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By what is the "sultry light" absorbed in Part I of "East Coker"?

2. Which of the following does the speaker wish to hear of concerning old men, in "East Coker," Part II?

3. From where does the "wailing warning " of Part I of "The Dry Salvages" come?

4. To what shall the vortex in "East Coker," Part II, bring the world?

5. Where, according to the speaker in the third part of "East Coker," do they "all go into"?

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