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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "dignified and commodious sacrament" mentioned in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Penance.
(d) Communion.

2. What does the speaker say is "in the fir trees" in the first part of "The Dry Salvages"?
(a) The salt.
(b) The briar rose.
(c) The fog.
(d) The moonlight.

3. For the appeasement of what does the "trilling wire in the blood" of Part II in "Burnt Norton" sing?
(a) The drift of stars.
(b) Long forgotten wars.
(c) The circulation of the lymph.
(d) Inveterate scars.

4. Whose shine, discussed in Part IV of "The Dry Salvages" "stands on the promontory"?
(a) Christ's.
(b) Mars'.
(c) The Lady's.
(d) Krishna's.

5. Interpretively, what is meant by "those long since under earth / Nourishing the corn"? in Part I of "East Coker"?
(a) Those who are dead and buried.
(b) The roots of long-established families.
(c) Those who are asleep and preparing to farm.
(d) The ancestral tradition of the West.

Short Answer Questions

1. The speaker asserts in Part II of "The Dry Salvages" that there "is no end, but" what?

2. What does the speaker state is the "cause and end of movement" in the fifth part of "Burnt Norton"?

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

4. Near the end of Part I of "Little Gidding," it is said that "the communication / Of the dead is tongued with" what?

5. From what is man said in Part II of "Burnt Norton" to be protected by the "enchainment of past and future" in the body?

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