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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in Part IV of "Little Gidding," "descending breaks the air"?
(a) The flame.
(b) The dove.
(c) The end.
(d) Time.

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

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

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

5. The speaker of Part II of "The Dry Salvages" states that "the moments of" what "are likewise permanent"?
(a) Joy.
(b) Agony.
(c) Revelation.
(d) Time.

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. What is the first of the "gifts reserved for age" that the speaker's interlocutor discloses in Part II of "Little Gidding"?

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

4. What month is mentioned in the first line of the second part of "East Coker"?

5. The pattern of what, according to the speaker's meditation in Part V of "East Coker," becomes more complicated?

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