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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In conjunction with the assertion that the stillness shall be the dancing, the speaker postulates in "East Coker"'s third part that the darkness shall be what?
(a) Death.
(b) Truth.
(c) Light.
(d) Movement.

2. 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) Significant soil.
(b) Congenial thought.
(c) Human fecundity.
(d) Earthly soul.

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

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

5. What is happening to "the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade" in "East Coker"'s second part?
(a) They are being devoured.
(b) They are being rolled away.
(c) They are being disintegrated.
(d) They are being covered up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "it" in "The Dry Salvages," Part II's final clause, "is what it always was"?

2. How many years "largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," does the speaker mention having passed in Part V of "East Coker"?

3. What is said to be "not here" in this "twittering world" in the "Burnt Norton"'s third part?

4. The speaker says in the first part of "Little Gidding" that "what you thought you came for / Is only a" what?

5. What does the speaker say that he believes to be a "strong brown god" in Part I of "The Dry Salvages"?

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